{"product_id":"the-voyage-of-the-beagle-isbn-9780140432688","title":"The Voyage of the Beagle","description":"\u003cb\u003eCharles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e.   This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin       List of maps and illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eA note on this edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Darwin's \u003ci\u003eJournal of Researches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's preface\u003cbr\u003eAppendix One: Admiralty instructions for the \u003ci\u003eBeagle\u003c\/i\u003e voyage\u003cbr\u003eAppendix Two: Robert FitzRoy's \"Remarks with reference to the Deluge\"\u003cbr\u003eBiographical guide\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Darwin\u003c\/b\u003e, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously \u003ci\u003eOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection\u003c\/i\u003e in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamien Hirst\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally renowned English artist, who has dominated the art scene in England since the 1990s. Known in particular for his series of works on death, Hirst here provides a contemporary, visual take on Darwin's theory of evolution - the struggle between life and death in nature.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Bynum\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College, London, and was for many years Head of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He edited the scholarly journal \u003ci\u003eMedical History\u003c\/i\u003e from 1980 to 2001, and his previous publications include \u003ci\u003eScience and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Roy Porter); \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations\u003c\/i\u003e (with Roy Porter), \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Medical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (with Helen Bynum), and \u003ci\u003eHistory of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Suffolk.GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO\u003cp\u003eThe natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself; the greater number of its inhabitants, both vegetable and animal, being found nowhere else. As I shall refer to this subject again, I will only here remark, as forming a striking character on first landing, that the birds are strangers to man. So tame and unsuspecting were they, that they did not even understand what was meant by stones being thrown at them; and quite regardless of us, they approached so close that any number of them might have been killed with a stick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beagle sailed round Chatham Island, and anchored in several bays. One night I slept on shore, on a part of the island where some black cones – the former chimneys of the subterranean heated fluids – were extraordinarily numerous. From one small eminence, I counted sixty of these truncated hillocks, which were all surmounted by a more or less perfect crater. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae, or slags, cemented together: and their height above the plain of lave, was not more than from 50 to 100 feet. From their regular form, they gave the country a workshop appearance, which strongly reminded me of those parts of Stratfordshire where the great iron foundries are most numerous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304004243685,"sku":"NP9780140432688","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140432688.jpg?v=1767742101","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-voyage-of-the-beagle-isbn-9780140432688","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}