Voyage of the Beagle

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• Publisher: The Big Nest
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787360198
• Edition: 0

Charles Darwin was twenty-two when he set off on the voyage of a lifetime aboard HMS Beagle. This book contains his journal with numerous observations including natural history, people, places. This journey took Darwin to the Galapagos, Australian coral reefs and many other corners of our planet shaping his ideas about evolution and subsequent work on the origin of species.

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I — ST. JAGO—CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS
• CHAPTER II — RIO DE JANEIRO
• CHAPTER III — MALDONADO
• CHAPTER IV — RIO NEGRO TO BAHIA BLANCA
• CHAPTER V — BAHIA BLANCA
• CHAPTER VI — BAHIA BLANCA TO BUENOS AYRES
• CHAPTER VII — BUENOS AYRES AND ST. FE
• CHAPTER VIII — BANDA ORIENTAL AND PATAGONIA
• CHAPTER IX — SANTA CRUZ, PATAGONIA, AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
• CHAPTER X — TIERRA DEL FUEGO
• CHAPTER XI — STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.—CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN COASTS
• CHAPTER XII — CENTRAL CHILE
• CHAPTER XIII — CHILOE AND CHONOS ISLANDS
• CHAPTER XIV — CHILOE AND CONCEPCION: GREAT EARTHQUAKE
• CHAPTER XV — PASSAGE OF THE CORDILLERA
• CHAPTER XVI — NORTHERN CHILE AND PERU
• CHAPTER XVII — GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO
• CHAPTER XVIII — TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND
• CHAPTER XIX — AUSTRALIA
• CHAPTER XX — KEELING ISLAND: CORAL FORMATIONS
• CHAPTER XXI — MAURITIUS TO ENGLAND
• NOTES