The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Janet Brown & Michael Neve When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831 Charles Darwin was twenty-two & 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 & events Volcanoes in the Galapagos the Gossamer spider of Patagonia & 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 & 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 & Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought & work & this edition also
Includes:: notes maps appendices & an essay on scientific geology & the Bible by Robert Fitz Roy Darwin's friend & Captain of the Beagle Charles Darwin (1809-82) a Victorian scientist & naturalist has become one of the most famous figures of science to date The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged & contradicted all contemporary biological & religious beliefs If you enjoyed The Voyage of the Beagle you might enjoy Darwin's On the Origin of Species also available in Penguin Classics