The Evolution of Charles Darwin
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin

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The Evolution of Charles DarwinCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780802161222 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2023 Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc. Description: From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize winning historian, the colourful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. When twenty two year old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780802161222
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2023
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.


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From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colourful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.

When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles - invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist - he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection.

Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin's and FitzRoy's own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin's growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains, navigate rivers, or ride hundreds of miles, accompanied by local guides whose languages he barely understood, across pampas and through rainforests in search of further unique specimens. From the wilds of Patagonia to the Galpagos and other Atlantic and Pacific islands, as Preston vibrantly relates, Darwin collected and contrasted volcanic
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