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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

Charles Darwin

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 6321 Users | 395 Reviews

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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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Charles Darwin...he remains as of yet the only historical figure I would have loved to have had the chance to meet. He's a zoologist, a botanist, a geologist... Darwin is a scientist through and through...Voyage of the Beagle...I loved the fauna, didn't really understand much about the flora, and had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the geology.But what surprised me most, was the parts of Darwin's personality that shone through his writing...wit, sarcasm, humanitarianism...This is

I have to confess that I'm a card-carrying Darwin fanboy: The theory of evolution is clearly one of the pinnacles of scientific discoveries. Darwin deserves enormous respect for articulating the theory. His thoughts had been gradually formed thanks to his earlier work, including the observations made on the voyage of the Beagle. It would blasphemous for me to rate the book about Darwin's celebrated trip described in great details by the great man himself anything but 5-stars. The Galapagos

I know Darwin's epic voyage was important for his development of the theory of natural selection and evolution and I have read Origin of Species and other works, The Voyage of the Beagle doesn't grab me like his other works. I suppose I am not much a fan of Travel literature. Just not my thing. Don't interpret my rating as a downing of the book. It is just not my thing and I do like Darwin's other works.

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

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

This is not the correct edition. Mine is published by Recorded Books, read by John Franklin Robbins, & is just selections from the book, about 4.5 hours long, with additional material - a really good biography. It was short & to the point. It's been a long time since I last read this, but I think I liked it in audio better than in print. Darwin's prose is perfect for being read out loud. Everyone always talks about Darwin's theories on evolution which makes it tough to remember that he

I'd rather have a barbed wire enema than read about the strata of granite or the formation of basalt - but once you wade through the geology you realize what a gem this book is. It's very much of its time - there's an underlying superiority in his talk of 'savages' and civilized man, a by-product of Britain's rampant colonialism - but it is drenched with wonder too. Darwin's joy at unexplored nature is infectious, and his frequent descriptions of the indigenous tribes of S. America are