When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. It was to last five years and transform him from an amiable and somewhat aimless young man into a scientific celebrity. Even more vitally, it was to set in motion the intellectual currents that culminated in the arrival of The Origin of Species in Victorian drawing-rooms in 1859. His journal is vivid and immediate, showing us a naturalist making patient observations, above all in geology. As well as a profusion of natural history detail, it records many other things that caught Darwin's eye, from civil war in Argentina to the new colonial settlements of Australia.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	October 28, 2018
ISBN13	9781727773286
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	464
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 24 mm · 616 g
Language	English

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