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...In 1835, Charles Darwin stood above Tagus Cove and looked down at HMS Beagle, which had dropped anchor at the sheltered nook on the Galápagos island of Isabela....
...Simon Usborne and photographer Tom Jamieson got on board the Aqua Mare to enjoy its inaugural trip – the first superyacht to sail among the islands, the boat is available for charter from $196,000 a week...
...The keystone of the book is a 66-page account on the close friendship that sprang up between Patchett and Sooki Raphael, assistant to the actor Tom Hanks, who lived in Patchett’s home for several months...
...“Whenever I stay in a hotel, I always look for a pub to hang out in,” says Creed, who reopened the 16th-century coaching inn with his business partner Tom Noest in June last year....
...Science discovered show business long before a 22-year-old Charles Darwin set off on a round-the-world mapping expedition aboard HMS Beagle....
...Mr Jenkins walked the plank following a row over cuts with investment bank boss Tom King, which the retail banker lost. Sir Mike sided with Mr King....
...The Beagles (Johb Paub, Georb and Rigo) hop to sell maby coddies of it. God luck lads . . . ” Other excisions are surprisingly prudish....
...scale Everest for the first time in 1953, along with his equally distinguished successors Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott; and the modern polar explorers Pen Hadow, who is currently in the Arctic, and Tom...
...Captain Fitzroy used its waterproof bark to caulk the hull of the Beagle and its scientific name, Fitzroya cupressoides, was bestowed by Darwin....
...Even as a pilot, though, he’s as clean-cut as they come; none of that spineless Major Tom anomie for him....
...Quammen explains clearly and entertainingly Darwin’s thought processes between the end of his voyage on the Beagle in 1836 and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859....
...Over in the Senate, it’s not looking good for Tom Daschle in South Dakota....
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