Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle.

Title

The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches

Author

Darwin, Charles Robert

Introduction

Sullivan, Walter

Publisher

Meridian, New York

Year

1996 (original 1836)

ISBN

0452011639 (Paperback)

Illustrations

Martens, Conrad (color painting and black & white drawings)

Table of Contents

Contents

Bibliography

none

Index

Index

Pages

456

Categories

Beagle expedition, world history, science, nature, natural history, South America, travel

Language

English (en)

From the Book Cover

"After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831...."
So begins one of the greatest travel adventure tales ever written—one of the great classics of natural history and a key work in the evolution of modern thought. When the Beagle set sail for Tierra del Fuego on a nearly five-year-long voyage, aboard was a remarkable young man hired as the ship's naturalist—Charles Darwin. His observations during this historic journey would become the foundation of his revolutionary theory of natural selection, and his writing would bring vividly to life an exotic world of natural wonders. Caught in an earthquake in Chile, witness to savage warfare in Argentina, spying a frozen horse perched in bizarre fashion atop an icy pinnacle in the high Andes, and absolutely puzzled and mesmerized by the unique creatures of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin captured the magnificence and mystery of the Beagle's voyage. This is a work that former New York Times science editor, Walter Sullivan, describes as "rich in high adventure, in passages of great beauty, and ever the open-eyed wonder of a young man discovering a world that is no more."

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Other works by same author

• The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
• Origin of Species.