To The Edge of the World
Original title: This Thing of Darkness
Also published as: This Thing of Darkness
first published 2005 MacAdam/Cage Pub., 2005 hardcover 789 pages
The year is 1828. Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS *Beagle*, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. But Fitzroy hides a dark secret: hereditary manic depression that can strike at any time. He is seized by two ambitions -- that he can prove, contrary to the spirit of the age, that black and white men are equal; and that he can prove the truth of the...
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