Darwin's Shooter captures its time with rare and dazzling skill, evoking an unforgettable - but forgotten - man at a watershed moment in history. The Ballad of Desmond Kale won the 2006 Miles Franklin Award and South Australian Festival Prize for Fiction.

Beset by guilt over participating in a work that will shake the human worldview to its foundations, he nonetheless wonders what part of himself might be reflected in Darwin's oeuvre. His internationally bestselling novel Mr Darwins Shooter, was awarded the New South Wales, Victorian, and South Australian Premiers Literary Awards. Now a crusty, eccentric, near-deaf old man, Covington has settled in Australia and is awaiting the arrival of the first copy of On the Origin of Species. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his 'gent,' specimens that become fundamental to the formulation of Darwin's theory of evolution. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. The author, best known for his award-winning novel Mr Darwins Shooter, is himself a sailor. His first novel was 1915, a novel of Gallipoli, winner of the Age Book. Roger McDonalds latest book, A Sea-Chase, is a tribute to sailing. Urn:oclc:760662495 Scandate 20111125222352 Scanner one of Australia's most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history's most significant crises of faith. Roger McDonald was born at Young, NSW, and educated at country schools and in Sydney. OL1951616W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.68 Pages 382 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0091836719 Mr Darwins Shooterre-creates the voyage of the Beagle, where Covington spends time exploring - and collecting specimens - inland. Urn:lcp:mrdarwinsshooter00mcdo:epub:6ac384cd-609e-48d6-9a92-e4024e5c5c58 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mrdarwinsshooter00mcdo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7np33c8p Isbn 087113733Xĩ780871137333 Lccn 98036819 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:25:50 Boxid IA112710 Boxid_2 CH115501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st American ed.

Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald