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Reading Guide
Mar 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375756801 Buy
Nov 03, 2010 | ISBN 9780307769725 Buy
Jan 01, 1995 | 1080 Minutes Buy
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Mar 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375756801
Nov 03, 2010 | ISBN 9780307769725
Jan 01, 1995 | ISBN 9781415910399
1080 Minutes
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history’s most influential thinkers.
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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