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| #817114 in Books | 2015-01-06 | 2015-01-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.52 x1.51 x6.28l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 496 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| An Adventure Climbing the Tree of Life|By Anthony Palermo|Chloe Bathurst is an actress, a zookeeper and a thief. She's also responsible for waking up Charles Darwin to the implications of his monumental idea. [And you thought it was Alfred Russel Wallace.]
Chloe, born into mid-19th Century England, and thoroughly appalled at the debtors' prison her ne'er-do-well fa|||“Morrow has proven a master at combining rollicking adventure and sly, bawdy humor with attention to ideas and a skewed look at history ... It's almost a crime for a novel to be as much fun as this one is.” ―Library Journal (starred review)
James Morrow's Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society―£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being―s...
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