Dimensions
158 x 245 x 37mm
Eddie Bosham, the not entirely English agent, is in prison on a murder charge. But he's not worried. He's innocent and, anyway, he has hidden proof of a ghastly scandal that could bring down the monarchy.
Taking up his memoirs from where he was left, marooned on the Galapagos Islands, we find Eddie offering young Charles Darwin an explanation of why the finches on the islands vary. Rescued by an American whaler and set ashore in Acapulco, he makes his way to Texas. Staunchly loyal to whichever side will win, he spies for General Santa Anna at the Alamo and, with the help of Emily Morgan, the ravishingly beautiful Yellow Rose of Texas, for Sam Houston at San Jacinto . . .
A head cocktail of fact and fiction, 'Birth of a Nation' is a brilliant exploration of the Iacunae in official histories. And it demonstrates, as Charlie does to Darwin, that it is the fittest who survive. But the fittest are not necessarily the biggest or strongest . . .
