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The Voyage of the Beagle
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Voyage of the Beagle
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Charles Darwin
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Edited by Janet Browne
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Edited by Michael Neve
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:448 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Pets and the Natural World Classic travel writing |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780140432688
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Classifications | Dewey:508.092 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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Publication Date |
29 June 1989 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Penguin Classics relaunch. 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 most controversial book of the Victorian age- The Origin of Species.
Author Biography
Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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