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ISBN: 9780140432688 - The Voyage of the
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The Voyage of the "Beagle"

Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches

Charles Darwin
Janet Browne, Michael Neve

ISBN: 9780140432688
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Abridged edition


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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. This title shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events.

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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 most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species".
 
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