The Voyage of the Beagle

Klappentext 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: C. Darwin, Charles Darwin, Charles R. Darwin
• Assisted by: Tom Griffith (Editor), Amigoni David (Introduction), Griffith Tom (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Wordsworth
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.04.1997
• EAN: 9781853264764
• ISBN: 978-1-85326-476-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Classics of World Literature; Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Classics of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; NATURE / General, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SCIENCE / General, MATHEMATICS / General, natural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Mathematics & science, Mathematics and science, Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle