Captain Robert FitzRoy is one of those interesting, but marginal, figures in history that you might well have heard of but can’t put your finger on. Harry Thompson clearly hopes that he can change that by writing this, a fictionalised account of FitzRoy’s voyage on the Beagle (he was captain, Charles Darwin the ship’s naturalist) [...]
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