Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary - Softcover

Darwin, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521003172 ISBN 13: 9780521003179

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy.

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Book Description:

A fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made, providing an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelogue that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy.From the reviews:' a record of his immediate feelings, the sea-sickness, the triumphs of his palaeontological finds, close shaves with General Rosas and military activity in Patagonia, dringking maté and smoking cigarilloes with the Gaucho, the stars glittering over the Andes vivid and expressive...'Janet Browne

About the Author:

Richard Darwin Keynes is Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. In parallel with research and teaching on physiology and biophysics, he has a long-standing interest in the voyage of the Beagle, and has also edited The Beagle Record (1979) and Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from the H. M. S. Beagle (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521003172
• ISBN 13: 9780521003179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Keynes R. D.