This Thing of Darkness · Harry Thompson

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: This Thing of Darkness in historical fiction, read by Colin Morgan.

Colin Morgan narrates the action-packed and tightly wound novel of Charles Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle – longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1831 Charles Darwin set off in HMS Beagle under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy on a voyage that would change the world. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men and the twin obsessions that tear them apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster.

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