Ένα ταξίδι στη ζωή του Δαρβίνου και τους προσωπικούς του προβληματισμούς. Ο Δαρβίνος από πολύ μικρή ηλικία προτιμούσε να μαζεύει σκαθάρια και γαιοσκώληκες, παρά να μελετάει τα μαθήματά του. Τελικά το ταξίδι του στο κόσμο των εντόμων τον οδήγησε στη διατύπωση της θεωρίας της εξέλιξης, η οποία και άλλαξε τον τρόπο που σκεφτόμαστε για τον κόσμο και τον εαυτό μας. Ένα πολύ σημαντικό βιβλίο για έναν από τους πιο σπουδαίους επιστήμονες που έζησαν ποτέ.

companion book to Night Journey. For able readers who enjoy Holocaust stories. Jews migrating to America.

Read by Anjie, Summer 2006:
"The jacket suggests a reading age of 10 and up. Some of the passages were a little distracting because I wasn't sure of the pronunciations (Yiddish and Russian). The story takes place in 1897, in a small Jewish village in Russia where Reuven Bloom is a fifteen-year-old violinist. The Jewish people in his village live in fear because the tsar's army kidnap young Jewish men, and burn entire villages. Reuven's family, except his infant sister, Rachel, are murdered by the Cossack's. He and his sister travel by foot to Poland, where he meets his cousin who is a Revolutionist leader for the Jewish people. A span of 6 years passes while Rachel is living in America with relatives and Reuven lives a life of violence for the Revolutionists. Reuven eventually travels to America and plays his violin once more. That wasn't very BRIEF! I chose this book because I have always been fascinated with the Holocaust. Diary of Anne Frank, Number the Stars, and another book written by Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey, could all possibly be included in a text set."

A historical novel set in the Russian Pale of Settlement in the late 1800s shows the conditions that led to massive Jewish emigration from Russia. A companion to Lasky's 1981 award-winnng book The Night Journey. ( )