num_pages: 626
description: 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. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...
language: English
title: This Thing of Darkness
titlecomplete: This Thing of Darkness
characters: Charles Darwin, Orundellico, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Robert Fitzroy
genres: Adventure, British Literature, Historical, Travel, Religion, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2856
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Review