Many people who have "planned" to read The Voyage of the Beagle and
been deterred by its length and scientific aspects will find the
answer here in a carefully and skillfully abridged edition, cut to
half the length, which gives the continuity of text, Darwin's own
words, and the observations and episodes that make it memorable as
a human document. Here is a classic, the record of an enquiring
mind seeking scientific truth. Here is evident the growth of the
man. An introductory biography places the importance of this trip
in Darwin's life; introductory bits for each chapter provide an
analysis of the voyage and its scientific meaning along with the
actual text. This work is significant in view of additional
material available in the last 35 years, much of it Darwin's own
writings, but hitherto unpublished in book form. A bibliography
provides not only original sources but additional material for
study. (Kirkus Reviews)
With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels
around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between
1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's
beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he
said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the
inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind
experiences'. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from
the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea Islands,
Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never
once overcome. In addition, The Voyage of the Beagle displays
Darwin's powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching
questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure,
animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.
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