Galapagos regained / James Morrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrow, James, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural selection--Fiction.

Natural selection.

Evolution (Biology)--Fiction.

Evolution (Biology).

Voyages and travels--Fiction.

Voyages and travels.

Island animals--Fiction.

Island animals.

History.

Galapagos Islands--History--19th century--Fiction.

Galapagos Islands.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

477 pages : map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Galapagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society--£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being--she decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send her off on a wild adventure--a voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andes--bound for the Galapagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

125005401X

9781250054012

OCLC:

891494630

Publisher Number:

99962470655