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The Voyage of The Beagle. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs. Annotated and with an Introduction by Leonard Engel
The Voyage of The Beagle Illustrated with maps drawings and photographs Annotated and with an Introduction by Leonard Engel Author:Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was only twenty-three when he served as a naturalist aboard the surveying ship, H.M.S. Beagle. The notes he kept on the journey were to be the basis of this book which, when first published in 1839...the researches described in the Voyage were the preparation for Darwin's life work, and it was from them that he was to develop his... more » revolutionary theory of evolution in "The Origin of Species". Mr. Engel's annotations are designed to aid the modern reader in the identification of personalities, geographical locations, and zoological species mentioned by Darwin, and to give background for Darwin's crucial discoveries...Mr. Engel aptly calls this "the greatest scientific travel adventure ever written."« less