Author: Darwin, Charles and Sir Gavin De Beer
Title: Journal of Researches Into the Natural History & Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M. S. Beagle Under the Command of Capt. Fritz Roy, R.N.
Description: New York, Heritage Press, 1957. Hardcover. Off-white cloth boards with brown lettering and illustration; brown slipcase; xvi, 489 pp.; richly illustrated. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species. This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. - Amazon synopsis. Ill.: Gibbings, Robert. VG- (Boards and Slipcase have light edgewear/scuffs/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: History, Natural History, Voyages Around the World in the 19th Century, Charles Darwin, the Beagle Expedition ; the Beagle Expedition ; ; Gibbings, Robert


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