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Original Title:	The Voyage of the Beagle
ISBN:	014043268X (ISBN13: 9780140432688)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Robert Fitzroy, Orundellico
Setting:	Tierra del Fuego(Chile) Galapagos Islands

Voyage of the Beagle Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Title	:	Voyage of the Beagle
Author	:	Charles Darwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	November 7th 1989 by Penguin Books (first published May 1839)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. History. Travel. Classics. Biology. Environment. Nature

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s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. It was to last five years and transform him from an amiable and somewhat aimless young man into a scientific celebrity. Even more vitally, it was to set in motion the intellectual currents that culminated in the arrival of The Origin of Species in Victorian drawing-rooms in 1859. His journal, reprinted here in a shortened version, is vivid and immediate, showing us a naturalist making patient observations, above all in geology. As well as a profusion of natural history detail, it records many other things that caught Darwin’s eye, from civil war in Argentina to the new colonial settlements of Australia. The editors have provided an excellent introduction and notes for this Penguin Classics edition, which also contains maps and appendices, including an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin’s friend and captain of the Beagle.

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What I wrote in my LJ while I was reading it._So I've started reading The Voyage of the Beagle. I've only read a chapter or so so far, but it's very enjoyable. I just kind of wish I'd paid more attention to my geology classes in school. It's a lot more relaxed and not nearly as self-conscious and defensive as TOoS was. It's all along the lines of "Hi all! We arrived on Random Island today. The trees are pretty but the people didn't even give us coffee. Can you believe it?! Anyhoo, I found a rock

Commanders in the Royal Navy could not socialize with their crew. They ate their meals alone-- then they met with the officers on board ship. This took it's mental toll on the ship's Captain's and so they were allowed a "civil" companion-- someone from outside the Navy who would be under their command but was not part of the crew. Captain Fitz Roy (age 26), a Nobleman and a passionate Naturalist chose Charles Darwin (a wealthy, upper-class Naturalist "enthusiast") to be his companion aboard the

This beautifully-written account of Darwin's formative voyage presents sides of him that will surprise many 21st-Century readers. It is probably well understood by now that Darwin did not see the finches of the Galapagos and experience a crash of evolutionary transcendence like an incoming Pterodactyl. He developed the theory patiently over the subsequent decades, and his experiences in his five years with the "Beagle" only contributed retrospectively. But the fact is that he was at this time

A book replete with historical value and awash with interesting tidbits scattered through the text. In the Voyage of the Beagle, written by young Darwin during his five years on the ship and in its many ports, we are treated to the earliest notions that would ultimately become ideas of such tremendous force that they would change the way we think of ourselves in relation to all of nature.But those reviews that suggest this is a laugh-a-minute travelogue are a bit ingenuous. There are many

Frequently exceedingly dry and of no interest except to naturalists, and probably not always them either: Darwin's voyage was so long ago that much of his information and speculation is simply outdated (his talk of 'miasmas' is one instance where later information makes his material of purely historical interest).If one is reading it for background on evolution and _Origin of Species_, one will be disappointed: there are a handful of lines in the main part of the work which may be taken as

Darwin's 'The Voyage of the Beagle' is a strange mixture of ecstatic travel writing and keen scientific observation. Darwin's writing style is very dense and informative, but at times bursts into strong emotional and very engaging writing. By all means this is powerful prose.Darwin not only makes very sharp observations on geology, nature and culture, he's also able to paint vivid pictures of the countries and islands he visits. His diary is of invaluable worth when describing nations and

It might sound like a little dry to read a scientist's observations of an expedition, but that wasn't the case for me. Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle provides a fascinating glimpse on Darwins early impressions of race, slavery, decolonization, the dichotomy of savagery and civilization, and the survival of the fittest (as well as his descriptions of a wide variety of fauna and stunning natural scenery).