This thing of Darkness, Harry Thompson

[Mrnotming]

ISBN 07553 0281 8

Headline Book Publishing.

About John Fitzroy commanding the HM survey ship "Beagle" with Charles Darwin and others on board.
A super read,lightly fictionalised in parts,and admitted to by the author.Readers of Patrick O'Brian will appreciated the effort put into bring this book to completion.It is utterly absorbing and will not be read by many in a sitting, rather reflected upon between stints, to more fully become involved in the arguments.Fitzroy gave us weather forecasting as we know it today.

 

[SAWDOC]

I second your recommendation. A great read by a multi-talented author- responsible for many popular comedies on TV. Tragedy he died so young. I have a memory I recommended it in a previous book club post but I can not trace it.