Emily Ballou's multi-award-winning sensitive and beautifully imagined verse-portrait of Charles Darwin's life saves the man from the legend. Bringing to light a fragile, deeply felt humanity, and capturing the textures of his work and dreams, the noise and touch of his wife and children, his inner doubts and questions. It is the story of a man at the brink of a revolutionary theory; a man whose dogged, lifelong determination to pursue the truth, despite the cost to his health, never undermined his intense feelings of devotion to those he loved.