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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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GalΓ‘pagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwinβs 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 SocietyβΒ£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Beingβshe decides that Mr. Darwinβs 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 adventureβa voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andesβbound for the GalΓ‘pagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges.
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