by Peter Ward · Teorema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726958628
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«As Aventuras de Darwin» is Peter Ward's historical adventure novel, published by Teorema in paperback, in Portuguese.
The cabin boy George Carter narrates Charles Darwin's scientific expeditions aboard HMS Beagle, with stopovers in places such as Tierra del Fuego. The Beagle's voyage shows the discoveries that transformed the young biologist into a key figure in science and gave rise to the theory of evolution.
Illustrations by João Moreno. The Portuguese edition was published in 2009; the English original, «The Adventures of Charles Darwin», dates from 1982.
Recommended by Portugal's National Reading Plan, it is a work for young readers interested in science and historical adventures.
Peter Douglas Ward is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. In 2000, along with his co-author Donald E. Brownlee, he co-originated the term Rare Earth and developed the Medea hypothesis alleging that multicellular life is ultimately self-destructive.
