| The Voyage of the Beagle Contributor(s): Darwin, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1727773284 ISBN-13: 9781727773286 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 508.8 |
| Lexile Measure: 1220 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.36 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 52124 Reading Level: 13.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 48.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |