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    <body><![CDATA[I tried this so called &quot;fiction&quot; to have an easier read on Darwin in this 200th year of his birth.  at over 600 pages, it does that, but at a cost of skipping a lot of science.  I find the tale hardly compelling and writing rather mundane.  I am reading both Darwinds tale of the voyage of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57767288">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the first books I ready by Irving Stone.  Well written, and a very detailed and interesting account of Charles Darwin and company ... I learned a lot, and decided Mr. Stone was one of the better authors of the 80's.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Extraordinary treatment of the life of Charles Darwin.  Set aside whatever discomfort you may have with evolution or intelligent design; just enjoy the sweeping story of early 1800's England and a voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very enlightening for me.  Darwin's theory is explained through his scientific ponderings.  The idea of evolution, as I understand it now, isn't necessarily about the jump from species to species but more about an evolution within the species.  Not monkey to man, but more like primitiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16297754">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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