Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle

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Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species
When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species. This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle.

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Über den Autor

Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Damien Hirst is an internationally renowned English artist, who has dominated the art scene in England since the 1990s. Known in particular for his series of works on death, Hirst here provides a contemporary, visual take on Darwin's theory of evolution - the struggle between life and death in nature.

William Bynum is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College, London, and was for many years Head of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He edited the scholarly journal Medical History from 1980 to 2001, and his previous publications include Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century; The Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (co-edited with Roy Porter); The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (with Roy Porter), The Dictionary of Medical Biography (with Helen Bynum), and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in Suffolk.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin List of maps and illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
A note on this edition

Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
Author's preface
Appendix One: Admiralty instructions for the Beagle voyage
Appendix Two: Robert FitzRoy's "Remarks with reference to the Deluge"
Biographical guide

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1989
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Welt gesamt, Pole
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel:	Reise um die Welt
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140432688
ISBN-10:	014043268X
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	41069
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Darwin, Charles
Redaktion:	Browne, Janet Neve, Michael
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	maps
Maße:	200 x 131 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles Darwin
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.06.1989
Gewicht:	0,324 kg