The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle, published in 1839, is Charles Darwin's memoir of the five-year journey he took on the ship HMS Beagle, beginning in 1831, when he was 22. The book brought him considerable fame and respect.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen power of obervation, as well as an exciting travel memoir, in a time when Westerners were still discovering much of the rest of the world. It also hints at ideas that Darwin would later develop into the theory of evolution.
Contents
The book's contents tells us where he went:
- Preface
- St. Jago -- Cape de Verd Islands
- Rio de Janeiro
- Maldonado
- Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca
- Bahia Blanca
- Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres
- Buenos Ayres and St. Fe
- Banda Oriental and Patagonia
- Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and The Falkland Islands
- Tierra del Fuego
- Strait of Magellan. -- Climate of the Southern Coasts
- Central Chile
- Chiloe and Chonos Islands
- Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake
- Passage of the Cordillera
- Northern Chile and Peru
- Galapagos Archipelago
- Tahiti and New Zealand
- Australia
- Keeling Island: -- Coral Formations
- Mauritius to England
External links
- Full eBook text of The Voyage of the Beagle (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3704) at Project Gutenberg
- Voyage of the Beagle (http://charles-darwin.classic-literature.co.uk/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/) Full Text.
- full text (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/voyage_of_beagle/index.shtml)
 | Topics relating to Charles Darwin |
|---|---|
| Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin;
Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin) | |
| Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. | |
| Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | |
| Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge |