The Voyage of the Beagle

by Darwin, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780792265597
• ISBN10: 0792265599
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: National Geographic

Summary

The Voyage of the Beagle is the fascinating record of Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist aboard a naval survey brig between 1831 and 1836. In those years the Beagle circled the globe, traveling along the coast of South America and crossing the Pacific with a brief, yet significant, stop in the Galapagos Islands to observe its intriguing reptiles and birds. The book's publication changed Darwin's life almost as much as the journey itself, writes David Quammen in the introduction to this Adventure Classics edition of The Voyage of the Beagle. The voyage made Darwin an astute scientific observer. The Voyage of the Beagle made him a famous author. Decades later Darwin wrote: "The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any of my other books." Considering that his other books included The Origin of Species, the book that put forward his theory of "descent with modification" and became one of the most influential books ever published, his partiality toward The Voyage of the Beagle reminds us that although The Origin of Species changed the world, his experiences aboard the Beagle are what changed Darwin's own life in ways that made The Origin possible. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xv
Preface
St. Jago--Cape de Verd Islands	p. 1
Rio de Janeiro	p. 16
Maldonado	p. 34
Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca	p. 55
Bahia Blanca	p. 71
Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres	p. 93
Buenos Ayres and St. Fe	p. 108
Banda Oriental and Patagonia	p. 125
Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands	p. 156
Tierra Del Fuego	p. 180
Strait of Magellan--Climate of the Southern Coasts	p. 204
Central Chile	p. 224
Chiloe and Chonos Islands	p. 242
Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake	p. 259
Passage of the Cordillera	p. 279
Northern Chile and Peru	p. 300
Galapagos Archipelago	p. 331
Tahiti and New Zealand	p. 358
Australia	p. 383
Keeling Island:--Coral Formations	p. 402
Mauritius to England	p. 429
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