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PUBLICATIONS Books on Explorers and Exploration From other Publishers   The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin: Naturalist, Geologist, & Thinker By Peter Sis ISBN 0374456283 Hardcover, 44pp September 2003 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Club member Milbry Polk Peter Sis is blessed with the remarkable ability to take complex histories and ideas and creatively transform them through images and deceptively simple text to make them accessible to a wide range of readers, young and old. Some of Sis’s previous books have dealt with exploration, including Tibet: through the Red Box, Animal Sense with Diane Ackerman, Starry Night: the Story of Galileo, and Follow the Dream: the Story of Christopher Columbus. In Tree of Life, Sis’s intricate pen and ink drawings washed in water colors evoke the seminal moments in Darwin’s life. Maps dotted with vignettes simply convey Darwin’s research and discoveries. Sis’s lovely cross section of the H.M.S. Beagle easily brings to life the reality of travel one hundred and fifty years ago. He intersperses his own sparse commentary with lines from Darwin’s writings. This is a magical book.

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