Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches By: Edited with an introduction by Janet Browne & Michael Neve
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Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches By: Edited with an introduction by Janet Browne & Michael Neve
Retail Price: $ 13.00 you can always remove it later.
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Binding: paper |
When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on December 27,1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. The journal that he kept shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology and natural history as well as people, places, and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia, the Australasian coral reefs, and the brilliance of the firefly; all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made on the five-year voyage were to set in motion the intellectual currents that lead to the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species.
Voyage of the Beagle reprints Charles Darwin’s journal in a shortened form. It contains an introduction providing a background to Darwin’s thought and work, as well as notes, maps, and appendices, and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin’s friend and captain of the Beagle.