"A picture book adaptation of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species, lushly illustrated and told in accessible and engaging easy-to-understand text for young readers."--

"The Book That Changed America offers a fascinating narrative account of these prominent figures as they grappled over the course of that year with Darwin?s dangerous hypotheses. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on America prior to the Civil War, showing how Darwin?s ideas become potent ammunition in the debate over slavery and helped advance the cause of abolition by giving it scientific credibility."--Amazon.com.

"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...