"Gal?pagos is a glorious book. It is high romance, exact science, fascinating history, wild adventure."--Nation
The Gal?pagos Islands are famed for their remarkable wildlife, including land and marine iguanas, land tortoises, four-eyed fish, and flightless cormorants and albatross. In 1835, Charles Darwin observed variations among the islands' species that inspired him to formulate the theory of natural selection. Eighty-eight years...