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The Last of the Windships is a tribute commercial sailing vessels before
to the last days of the great merchant taking on a job as a journalist on a
sailboats and their crews from a unique whaling expedition to Antarctica in
photographic talent. 1923, which ultimately resulted
The photographic work in the writing of his first
of Alan Villiers is arguably book. These powerful images,
the most important photo- published for the first time in
historical record of early- this volume, date from the
twentieth-century maritime late 1920s through the 1930s
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history in the world. In and were taken aboard the
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capturing on film life aboard three ships Villiers worked
the last of the great merchant on during this period: the
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History prefers individual heros. The book weaves South-Seas
Charles Darwin is the perfect example, adventure with Victorian culture
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as his fame and the many books about history into an immensely varied and
him attest. This bias leaves part of history satisfying read. McCalman begins with
untold, for heroes never change Darwin, the eccentric former
the world alone. The truth is clerical student who later
more complex, achievement was dubbed “The Devil’s
more dispersed. This is what Disciple” by the English
makes Iain McCalman’s press. He describes Darwin’s
Darwin’s Armada: Four life-changing expedition that
Voyages and the Battles of led to the publication of his
the Theory of Evolution not first book, The Voyage of
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just a welcome addition to the Beagle, in 1839, and how
the Darwin bookshelf, but an this book inspired the three
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important one. By widening the younger men to explore
focus to include Darwin’s three the Southern Hemisphere
crucial champions - Joseph themselves.
Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages
Russel Wallace - McCalman gets to the and the Battle of the Theory of Evolution
The
heart of just how evolution won the war of published by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc,
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