Darwin's Sacred Cause : Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001) Pigeon English follows in the

Pigeon English follows in the tradition of our great novels of friendship and adventure

and a forest that harbours soldiers seemingly unaged since WWII

The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors

prompted by his wife's actions

Darwin's Sacred Cause : Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001) Pigeon English follows in theIn this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor. Darwin was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family's deeply held beliefs. It was his 'Sacred Cause' and at its core lay a belief in human racial unity. Desmond and Moore show how he extended to all life