Harry Thompson
Paperback | Pages: 626 pages Rating: 4.49 | 2039 Users | 261 Reviews
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| Original Title: | This Thing of Darkness |
| ISBN: | 0755327144 (ISBN13: 9780755327140) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005) |
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1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...Point Regarding Books This Thing of Darkness
| Title | : | This Thing of Darkness |
| Author | : | Harry Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 626 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Review |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.49 From 2039 Users | 261 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books This Thing of Darkness
If I could give it six, seven, eight stars I would.A whopper of a book but an absolutely amazing one. It's Darwin and Robert FitzRoy's life story, immaculately well researched, beautifully written and absolutely on a par with the O'Brian, Barrett and you know... God.Very warmly recommended.Fascinating.At times brutal.Well written.Delves deep into Fitzroy's character, his state of mind, his successes and setbacks, his perseverance in the face of ignorance, dirty politics, nepotism and cronyism. An under appreciated steadfast hero.
I struggled slightly with this book - it is huge and the subject matter isnt something I would normally read, however it was recommended to me by a friend who said it was one of the greatest books she had ever read. There were times when I found it slow and hard going and other times when I got quite engrossed. I would say it is between a 3.5 and a 4 and I feel a sense of achievement at having finished it (as it took me sooo long).
This is brilliant. It's better than anything by James Joyce, Jane Austen, any Brontë you care to name, any Proust you care to name, any anyone you care to name. It's the only novel Harry Thompson lived long enough to write, and it's worth an entire Rougon-Macquart of Émile Zola.Because of this book I became an obsessive enough fan of Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy to buy a mobile phone cover with his picture on it, then realise that it didn't fit my phone, and then buy a new phone just so that I
Wow...I didn't just love this book, I lived it. It spoke to me in a very special way, about life, death, love, hope, despair and the inner turmoils and emotions that accompany us through the journeys we make, both physical and metaphorical. This book had everything; action and excitement, science and religion, love and war. I cannot recommend this book enough. It became my companion and I am feeling very lonely now that I have finished it.
I abandoned this fairly early on, in large part because it has the single most boring storm at sea I've ever read in the first 40 pages.
A strange novel, that if entirely fictional you would say was a bit, well, odd. To then find out that the entire core narrative is based on real life transforms this into a book that stays with you.Poor Fitzroy - an extremely talented naval officer, always seeking to do the right thing, while surrounded by shady unscrupulous characters. Darwin of course is the famous one, but he flits in and out if the tale, and it is always to Fitzroy that we return.Not an adventure novel, despite the
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