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In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the
Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had
participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of
South America. Volume 1 of this three-volume work, published in
1839, describes that 1826-30 expedition, while Volumes 2 and 3
cover the second voyage. Compiled by Robert Fitzroy (1805-65),
captain of the Beagle from 1828, Volume 1 is based on the journals
of Phillip Parker King (1791-56), the expedition's commander, whose
account of his earlier survey of Australia is also reissued. Tasked
with surveying the coast from Montevideo to Cape Horn and north to
Chiloe, and 'collecting and preserving specimens of ... natural
history', the expedition spent its first two field seasons around
Tierra del Fuego, enduring hunger, scurvy and severe weather. It
reached Chiloe in 1829, and returned to England a year later.
In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the
Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had
participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of
South America. This three-volume work, published in 1839, describes
both voyages. Volume 2 is Fitzroy's account of his voyage with
Darwin. He describes how the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Captain
Beaufort (founder of The Nautical Magazine, also reissued),
approved the proposal that 'some well educated and scientific
person' should join the expedition: Darwin was chosen. Fitzroy's
descriptions of the locations visited and their natural history
provide a fascinating counterpoint to Darwin's own account of the
voyage, the first published version of which makes up Volume 3.
Fitzroy refers regularly to the geographical and scientific books
that he and Darwin kept in the ship's library. The majority of
these are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's 1832-6 voyage on the
Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had
participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of
South America. This three-volume work, published in 1839, describes
both voyages. Volumes 1 and 2, compiled by Fitzroy, contain
accounts by professional mariners. Volume 3 is the first published
version of the young Darwin's now famous journal. It later appeared
as a free-standing publication (1840) and in a more popular second
edition (1845), both reissued in this series. Darwin's preface
refers to the detailed scientific publications resulting from his
research: the geological studies of volcanic islands and coral
reefs (also available in the Cambridge Library Collection), and the
co-authored, multi-volume zoology. Darwin expresses thanks to
Fitzroy for his 'most cordial friendship', to the ship's officers
for their 'undeviating kindness', and particularly to his Cambridge
mentor John Stevens Henslow.
Robert Fitzroy (1805 65) is best remembered as the commander of HMS
Beagle who took on Charles Darwin as the Ship's naturalist, but his
most important scientific contribution was probably the
establishment of the Meteorological Office in 1854. Convinced that
falling barometric pressure was an indicator of storms, he had
barometers set up at ports around the coast, so that boats would be
aware of impending bad weather, and later had reports telegraphed
to his office in London for collation; he invented the term
'forecasting the weather'. This work, published in 1863, gives an
account of observations by himself and others, experiments, and
proposals for future developments. Almost unbelievably, the
Government declared that Fitzroy was exceeding his remit: he was
instructed to restrict himself to collecting data, and it is
believed that the depression he suffered at this setback was one of
the factors which led to his suicide in 1865.
Title: Passage table and general sailing directions ... published
by authority of the Board of Trade.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Fitzroy, Robert; 1859.
8 . 10496.cc.4.
Title: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships
Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing
their examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the
Beagle's circumnavigation of the Globe. With appendixes and
addenda.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fitzroy,
Robert; 1839. 3 vol.; 8 . G.2554-7.
Title: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships
Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing
their examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the
Beagle's circumnavigation of the Globe. With appendixes and
addenda.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fitzroy,
Robert; 1839. 3 vol.; 8 . G.2554-7.
Including Magellan Strait, The Falkland, And Galapagos Islands.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Including Magellan Strait, The Falkland, And Galapagos Islands.
Including Magellan Strait, The Falkland, And Galapagos Islands.
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