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In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of your legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the countless mysteries mounted on the life span and work of Charles Darwin.What led Darwin to the idea of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to create On the foundation of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival?They are some of the questions driving Darntons richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwins own as he sails across the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzies as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulcimer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with one another) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research.What Hugh and Beth discover?Lizzies diaries and letters lead them to a concealed chapter of Darwins autobiography?is a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart which lies the birth of the idea of evolution.
