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Naturalist and Commander; This seafaring yarn follows Charles Darwin and a dashing captain around the world.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060716
Author:Reviewed by Ken Ringle

TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

A Novel

By Harry Thompson

MacAdam/Cage. 789 pp. $26

Those of us in thrall to the late Patrick O'Brian are still combing book stalls and reviews looking for his successor, however profoundly we understand there'll never be one. Like alcoholics licking the lids of empty brandy bottles, we grope for the next fix, hungry for almost any author who will pipe us aboard a square-rigged ship for provocative cerebral adventures. To the Edge of the World is a bulky first novel in the O'Brian tradition by a talented British political satirist, travel writer and TV producer named ...

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