| Evolution's
Captain is the story of a visionary but
now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the "Darwinian
Revolution" would never have occurred.
When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out for Tierra del Fuego in the fall of 1831, he invited a young naturalist to accompany him. That twenty-two-year-old gentleman was Charles Darwin, and perhaps no single voyage in history had a greater impact on how we would come to understand the world -- in both religious and scientific terms. Peter Nichols, Camden resident, also is author of Voyage of Madmen; the memoir, Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat; and a novel, A Voyage to the North Star. He has taught creative writing at NYU in Paris, Georgetown University and teaches now at Bowdoin College in Maine. He will read passages from his new book, describe its development and be available for question and answers and book signing. Other books by Peter Nichols: |