Evolution's Workshop a private novel

Evolution's Workshop a private novelFrom a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, the captivating history of the Galapagos Islands and the explorers and researchers who landed on its shores before and after Darwin Science writing at its best. Seattle Times The Galpagos Islands were largely overlooked until Charles Darwin arrived in the 1830s and recognized that their isolation and desolation were a boon for the naturalist. Since then, these islands have been the locale of every major turning

Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert

and fun—and will prompt hours of conversation among friends

but after several days he realizes that her situation is far more dangerous and complicated than he thought

and Faerie itself

Decker's never been one to follow the rules

Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

funny and reassuring

from new college grads to mid-career professionals

and the geography of the world that determined the strategy of conquest

professors and cocaine smugglers

the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier

Her new supervisor