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Roger McDonald

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<p>A fictional biography chronicles the life of Syms Covingtona fifteenyearold boy who becomes Charles Darwin's shooter and collector of specimensfrom his early maritime adventures with evangelical sailor John Phipps to his later years as he awaits his copy of The Origin of the Species and ponders his part in altering the way the world thinks. Reprint.</p>

Mr. Darwin's Shooter

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

Mr Darwin's Shooter

Literary

Penguin Books Australia

Billy MacKenzie and Walter Gilchrist, friends possessing vastly different temperaments, are bound together by their childhood ties and by their love for Australia which causes them to enlist in the army in 1915, leaving behind two girls forced into womanhood by their decisions

1915

Faber and Faber

Michael Willesee's Australians

BANTAM BOOKS

The Ballad of Desmond Kale

Contemporary

Vintage

A tale based on the true life story of Syms Covington, servant to Charles Darwin on the famous voyage of The Beagle. It is a novel of ambition and adventure, masters and servants and an all-too-human quest for the truth.

Anchor Books

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