For the Durham scenes, I consulted A Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham by E. Mackenzie and M. Ross (Mackenzie & Dent, 1834), The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham by William Fordyce (Thomas Fordyce, 1855), Cathedral City by Thomas Sharp (The Architectural Press, 1945), In and Around Durham by Frank H. Rushford (Durham County Press, 1946) and Durham by Sir Timothy Eden (Robert Hale, 1952).
Among the various scientific books and articles consulted during the preparation of this novel, I should like to mention Bones of Contention by Paul Chambers (John Murray, 2003), Return to the Wilberforce-Huxley Debate by J. Vernon Jensen (British Journal for the History of Science, 21, pp. 161-79, 1988), A Journey to a Birth - William Smith at the birth of Stratigraphy by L.R. Cox (International Geological Congress, 1948), The Pony Fish’s Glow, and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature by George C. Williams (Basic Books, 1997), Darwinism - A Crumbling Theory and Evidence for Creation by Outside Intervention by Lloyd Pye (Nexus Magazine, volume 10, number 1, December 2002-january 2003 and volume 9, number 4, June-July 2002), FitzRoy’s Foxes and Darwin’s Finches by W. R.P.Bourne (Archives of Natural History, 1992, 19 (1)), Noah’s Flood - the Genesis Story in Western Thought by Norman Cohn (Yale University Press, 1996), The Weather Prophets: Science and Reputation in Victorian Meteorology by Katharine Anderson (History of Science, 37, June 1999), Matthew Fontaine Maury - Scientist of the Sea by Francis Leigh Williams (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1963), From Wind Stars to Weather Forecasts: The Last Voyage of Admiral Robert FitzRoy by Derek Barlow (Weather London, 1994, volume 49, number 4), Not in our Genes by Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin and Richard C. Lewontin (Penguin, 1984), The Biblical Flood - A Case Study of the Church’s Response to Extrabiblical Evidence by Davis A. Young (Paternoster Press, 1995), and of course many, many fine articles by the inimitable Stephen Jay Gould. For their insights into the processes of manic depression, I am utterly indebted to the work of Andrew Solomon, Dr Irene Whitehill, Sally Brampton and John Morrish.
As to the geographical descriptions, the vast majority were obtained by personal visits to the actual locations. FitzRoy and Darwin themselves provided plenty of supplementary assistance, as did A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz (1868, modern ed. by Praeger, Westport, CT, 1970), Giants of Patagonia by Captain Bourne (Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853), and The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Baker & Leitch, 1778). John Campbell’s In Darwin’s Wake (Waterline, 1997) provided specific information regarding the Beagle’s South American anchorages.
Harry Thompson, This Thing of Darkness
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