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The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle By Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin


Summary

This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin's speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.

The Voyage of the Beagle Summary

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

With an Introduction by David Amigoni.

Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences'.

Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea Islands, Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never once overcome. In addition, The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.

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GOR001218089
9781853264764
1853264768
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1997-04-05
496
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