The Voyage of the Beagle

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HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley

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.

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

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	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

The Voyage of the Beagle

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