Galapagos Regained

"Galápagos Regained reads like a riotous conflation of Candide and Around the World in 80 Days. By turns harrowing, hilarious, and thought-provoking, the adventures of Darwin's zookeeper, the fictional Chloe Bathurst, make for a delectable historical epic."-- Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Windup Girl

"Jim Morrow’s madcap brilliance and exuberant erudition are on the move again, and Galápagos Regained is a triumph. It's an adventure story that’s not only bursting with page-turning plot but with dangerous ideas of the very best kind. Riding the wild narrative waves of Galápagos Regained is an exhilarating experience that is not to be missed.” -Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex

"A witty and wisecracking Victorian adventure, an Indiana Jones caper with Charles Darwin lurking in the wings, as if Jules Verne was retold by Tom Stoppard. Rollicking, preposterously enchanting, and--as with all of Morrow's work--cagily profound." -Wilton Barnhardt, author of Lookaway, Lookaway

"James Morrow's uncanny genius for creating imagined worlds within historical ones finds its full flowering in Galapagos Regained. In Chloe Bathurst, sometime assistant to Charles Darwin, the author has forged one of his most memorable characters--a young woman who risks life and livelihood in an epic quest to save her destitute father. Erudite, hilarious, prodigiously inventive on every page, Galapagos Regained is simply intoxicating in its originality and wisdom." - Bradford Morrow, author of The Forgers