Collection: Fiction (Academy Use Only)

An old man and his childhood sweetheart are united for the first time resulting in the consummation of an amor interruptus that spans half a century. This uplifting story is set on the Colombian coast in the early 20th century.

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S. Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes of evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection.