Journal of researches into the natural history & geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
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Book
Title:
Journal of researches into the natural history & geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
Other title(s):
Journal of researches by Charles Darwin into the natural history & geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
Publication:
New York : Heritage Press, [1957]
Physical Description:
xvi, 489 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
General Note:
Cover title: The voyage of H. M. S. Beagle; the journal of Charles Darwin.
"The second edition...published in 1845 ...has been selected for the present reprint."
First edition published in 1839 under title: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle.
Library of Congress [5].
"574. Jul. 10 1957"--Card catalogue.
Contents:
Introduction / Sir Gaven de Beer, F.R.S. Director of the British Museum (Natural History) -- 1. St. Jago - Cape de Verd Island -- 2. Rio de Janeiro -- 3. Maldonado -- 4. Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca -- 5. Bahia Blanca -- 6. Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres -- 7. Buenos Ayres to Santa Fe -- 8. Banda Oriental and Patagonia -- 9. Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands -- 10. Tierra del Fuego -- 11. Strait of Magellan - Climate of the Southern Coats -- 12. Central Chile -- 13. Chiloe and Chonos Islands -- 14. Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake -- 15. Passage of the Cordillera -- 16. Northern childe and Peru -- 17. Galapagos Archipelago -- 18. Tahiti and New Zealand -- 19. Australia -- 20. Keeling Island: Coral Formations -- 21. Mauritius to England
Summary:
When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species. This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. - Amazon
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