To The Edge of the World

Harry Thompson

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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To The Edge of the World paperback · 2007 · MacAdam/Cage Publishing · 750 pages · 9781596922198
This Thing of Darkness paperback · 2006 · BookForce · 596 pages · 9780755327140
This Thing of Darkness paperback · 2006 · Headline Review · 768 pages · 9780755302819
To the edge of the world hardcover · 2005 · MacAdam/Cage Pub. · 789 pages
This Thing of Darkness hardcover · 2005 · Headline Review · 644 pages · 9780755302802

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