Nonfiction · 1839
The Voyage of the Beagle
A twenty-two-year-old naturalist spends five years circling the globe aboard a Royal Navy survey ship, from the fossil beds and gauchos of Patagonia to the volcanic islands of the Galápagos and the coral atolls of the Pacific — the voyage of observation and specimen-collecting that would give Charles Darwin the raw material for a lifetime of theory to come.
Charles Darwin first published his account of the voyage in 1839; this Bibliomancer edition presents his substantially revised 1845 second edition, the version most widely read since.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text.
Contents
- Note
- Preface
- Chapter I — St. Jago—Cape de Verd Islands
- Chapter II — Rio de Janeiro
- Chapter III — Maldonado
- Chapter IV — Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca
- Chapter V — Bahia Blanca
- Chapter VI — Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres
- Chapter VII — Buenos Ayres and St. Fe
- Chapter VIII — Banda Oriental and Patagonia
- Chapter IX — Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands
- Chapter X — Tierra del Fuego
- Chapter XI — Strait of Magellan.—Climate of the Southern Coasts
- Chapter XII — Central Chile
- Chapter XIII — Chiloe and Chonos Islands
- Chapter XIV — Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake
- Chapter XV — Passage of the Cordillera
- Chapter XVI — Northern Chile and Peru
- Chapter XVII — Galapagos Archipelago
- Chapter XVIII — Tahiti and New Zealand
- Chapter XIX — Australia
- Chapter XX — Keeling Island:—Coral Formations
- Chapter XXI — Mauritius to England
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1809–1882 · Victorian
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was born in Shrewsbury, studied medicine at Edinburgh and for the Church at Cambridge, and sailed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. The theory of natural selection took shape in his notebooks from 1837; he published it in On the Origin of Species in 1859, after Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the same idea, and developed it in The Descent of Man (1871) and later works. He lived and worked at Down House in Kent for forty years.
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