About the Author

Peter Nichols is the author of the national bestseller A Voyage for Madmen and two other books, Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat , a memoir, and the novel Voyage to the North Star . He has taught creative writing at NYU in Paris and Georgetown University, and presently teaches at Bowdoin College. He is lives in Maine with his wife and son.

Reviews

"A well-written and lively tale, filled with insightful analysis and telling details." -- Seattle Times"A powerful story played out against a beguiling landscape." -- New York Times Book Review"Nichols delivers a dramatic, highly colored narrative about the head-on collision between two worldviews." -- Washington Post"A fascinating account ... a finely researched, engaging book." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"This engrossing account of Fitzroy's life reads like the finest historical fiction." -- Sunday Telegraph"A fascinating account." -- Edmonton Sun"[It's] hard not to share Nichols' fascination with how FitzRoy...inadvertantly set off a scientfic controversy." -- Publishers Weekly"A detailed ... portrait of a man whose talents should have earned him a higher place in history." -- Kirkus Reviews"Marvelous...a fascinating and expert amalgam of history, science, anthropology and adventure." -- Derek Lundy, author of The Way of a Ship