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Aboard the HMS "Beagle", 15-year-old Syms Covington enters the service of Charles Darwin, shooting and collecting hundreds of specimens for his "gent", specimens that become fundamental to the formation of Darwin's theory of evolution.

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It was the hottest time of the year, a month after Christmas at latitude thirty-five degrees south.

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  1. Roger McDonald (Author)

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Publisher: Knopf
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Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0091836719
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