Sail till the seas has a vocal from Warwick Broadhead, obviously selected more for his ability to create a 'sea shanty' atmosphere than for the quality of his voice, but it is effective for all that!īecalmed starts with some more excellent clarinet from Bridget Mills. The music is very descriptive, Church has a calm about it and Fiddle a slightly Greek feel in both melody and rhythm. Up the Creek has some very fine Clarinet playing from Bridget Miles, she has an excellent tone on the instrument and a very even sound over all of the registers. The prelude, as you would expect, sets the tone for the piece, well-ordered and very musical. The first suite was composed after reading Australian author Roger McDonald's novel Mr. Jonathan Besser describes his work as a personal geography of the imagination. Reviewers: Don Mather, Dick Stafford, Marc Bridle, Ian Lace, Peter Woolf, Colin Clarke Inventory No: 18020005.Jonathan BESSER Mr Darwin's Dances : Jazz CD Reviews- March 2001 MusicWeb(UK) CD Reviews Category: Fiction General ISBN: 0091836719.

Darwin s Shooter' captures its time with rare and dazzling skill, evoking an unforgettable but forgotten man at a watershed moment in history.

Now a crusty, eccentric, near-deaf old man, Covington has settled in Australia and is awaiting the arrival of the first copy of 'On the Origin of Species.' Beset by guilt over participating in a work that will shake the human world view to its foundations, he nonetheless wonders what part of himself might be reflected in Darwin s oeuvre. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his gent, specimens that become fundamental to the formulation of Darwin s theory of evolution. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: From one of Australia s most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history s most significant crises of faith. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House, Australia, 1998.

Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald