Voyage of the Beagle (NG Adventure Classics)

by Charles Darwin

Paperback, 496 pages

English language

Published April 1, 2004 by National Geographic.

ISBN:: 978-0-7922-6559-7
OCLC Number:: 52687907

(11 reviews)

I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty.

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Aaron reviewed The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle

3 stars

I read this because I was going to take a trip to the Galapagos, and Darwin’s travelogue is an enjoyable one. I assumed that most of the book would be consumed with flora and fauna. There is certainly plenty of that, but Darwin also comments on the numerous people that he meets — indigenous groups, Spanish colonizers, missionaries, and so on. He has almost nothing to say about the voyage itself — there are huge gaps in the narrative when they are merely “at sea.” But I enjoyed reading it for what it is.

Samuel reviewed Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (Penguin classics)

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I had bought this book many years ago, when I was still a biology student, but I've never accomplished to read more than twenty pages, my english was not so good fifteen years as it is now. I'm going to give it a new try, at that time (on 1998) there was nothing like book social networks where we can read the own opinions of the readers.