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First Published:
Mar 2009, 160 pages
Paperback:
Oct 2012, 160 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Marnie Colton
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by Iain McCalman
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsDarwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame.
by Tracy Chevalier
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsA voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel.
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