Offers a riveting account of the great expeditions into the cold heart of Antarctica during the continent's Heroic Age. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial an
When Charles Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he was the first to recognize that their isolation and desolation were advantages for a naturalist: Here the workings of nature are laid b
"Larson's thoughtful analysis of issues involved when the state intervenes in the reproductive decisions of its citizens is both timely and persuasive." -- Journal of American History
Reissued with a new preface: the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that is “quite simply the best book ever written on the Scopes Trial and its place in American history and myth.”
