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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent (Hardcover)
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent (Hardcover)
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Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded
the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the
ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself
crawling through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees in the
rainforest, and scaling craggy Patagonian cliffs as he collected
specimens and closely observed the relationship between the
creatures he stalked and the astonishing, utterly unfamiliar
landscapes where he found them. What happened to Darwin? That's the
question Lyanda Lynn Haupt compellingly explores in a narrative
that puts us inside the young Darwin's shoes - and brings nose to
nose with dung beetles, ostriches, and all form of wild creatures.
By mining Darwin's lesser-known works - diaries, correspondence,
his ornithological journals, unruly little pocket notebooks - Haupt
illuminates the process that shaped Darwin's vision of the workings
of nature. Her book not only chronicles Darwin's transformation
from uncertain amateur to genius but reminds us how and why, in our
own world as well as Darwin's, attention to small things can make a
big difference.
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