'Classic' is almost too trite a word for this wonderful story in
Darwin's own words of his famous career-setting journey of a
lifetime. Darwin was 22 years old in 1831 when he accmpanied
Captain Robert FitzRoy on a mapping-collecting trip to South
America. Darwin returned five years later, having marvelled at the
wonders of the natural world and taken copious notes about it which
led to books and papers and scientific celebrity. It would be
several more decades (1859) before Darwin published the famous
theory of natural selection to explain evolution but the seeds were
all here in this trip - the finches of the Galapagos, the arguments
with Captain FitzRoy, the first glimpse of the astonishing
diversity of the tropical rain forest, the geological wonders that
spoke to Darwin about the Earth's changes. It is highly readable, a
book to give any modern adventurer a hint of the thrill of
discovery, a book to dip into and to come back to time and again.
(Kirkus UK)
‘In England any person fond of natural history enjoys a great advantage … but in these fertile climates, teeming with life, the attractions are so numerous, that he is scarcely able to walk at all’
When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27th December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. The journal that he kept shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology and natural history as well as people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia, the Australasian coral reefs and the brilliance of the firefly; all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made on the five-year voyage were to set in motion the intellectual currents that lead to the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species.
This volume reprints Charles Darwin’s journal in a shortened form. It contains an introduction providing a background to Darwin’s thought and work, as well as notes, maps and appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin’s friend and captain of the Beagle.
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