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The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches

By Charles Darwin
Introduction by Janet Browne and Michael Neve
Edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve

By Charles Darwin
Introduction by Janet Browne and Michael Neve
Edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve

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Nov 07, 1989 | ISBN 9780140432688

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About The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin’s account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species 

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. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, to a wealthy intellectual family, his grandfather being the famous physician Erasmus Darwin. At Cambridge University he formed a friendship with J. S. Henslow, a professor of botany, and that… More about Charles Darwin

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Category: Biography & Memoir | Science | Travel Writing | Nonfiction Classics

Paperback | $16.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Nov 07, 1989 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780140432688

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Table Of Contents

Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin List of maps and illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
A note on this edition

Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches
Author’s preface
Appendix One: Admiralty instructions for the Beagle voyage
Appendix Two: Robert FitzRoy’s “Remarks with reference to the Deluge”
Biographical guide

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