<p><i>The Voyage of the Beagle</i> is Charles Darwin''s account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to <i>The Origin of Species</i>. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve.<br><br>When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and 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 and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and 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, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: <i>The Origin of Species</i>.<br><br>This volume reprints Charles Darwin''s journal in a shortened
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The first volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin''s published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of...
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