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St. Martin's Press
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
Featuring: Chloe Bathurst
ISBN: 125005401X EAN: 9781250054012 Kindle: B00LZERQHK Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
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—she decides that
Mr. Darwin’s materialist theory of speciation might just
turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around
in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send
her off on a wild adventure—a voyage by brigantine to
Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon
flight across the Andes—bound for the Galápagos archipelago,
where she intends to collect the live specimens through
which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the
contest judges.
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