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02355aam a22004338i 4500 001 1B1EC98C7ABA11E4B6DBA182DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240309011342 008 140926t20152014nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2014032118 020 $a 125005401X (hardcover) 020 $a 9781250054012 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a pogg--- 050 00 $a PS3563.O876 $b G35 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a FIC014000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Morrow, James, $d 1947- 245 10 $a Galapagos regained / $c James Morrow. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1501 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2015. 300 $a pages ; cm 520 $a "Galapagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society--£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being--she decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send her off on a wild adventure--a voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andes--bound for the Galapagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Natural selection $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Voyages and travels $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Island animals $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a Galapagos Islands $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 5 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107033207.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006082936.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418104529.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20150619013327.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20150502024438.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1B1EC98C7ABA11E4B6DBA182DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search