Odyssey : young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world

Chaffin, Tom, author.

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"Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle'...

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Beagle Expedition (1831-1836)

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Childhood and youth

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Travel

Evolution (Biology) History

Naturalists England Biography

Voyages around the world

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ISBN:

9781643139081

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition

Description:

xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), genealogical table, maps ; 24 cm

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Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world

Notes:

Additional maps on endpapers
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I: "We philosophers do not bargain for this kind of work", August 1833. Looking for the general
"The perfect gaucho"
Part II: Shropshire Lad, 1809-1831. "Gas"
Edinburgh
Cambridge
"You are the very man they are in search for"
Captain FitzRoy
HMS Beagle
Devonport
Part III: Odysseus Unbound, 1832. Marine life
In Humboldtian climes
Tropic of slavery
Rio
A night at the Venda da Matto
Botafogo Idyll
"Laughable revolutions"
Part IV: Austral Climes, 1832-1833. "No painter ever imagined so wild a set of expressions"
Tierra del Fuego
Navarino Island
El Dorado lost
In Patagonia
Cerro Tres Picos
"I thank providence I am here with an entire throat"
Tierra del Fuego redux
Rio Santa Cruz ascent
Part V: Round the Horn, 1834-1836. The heights of Cerro la Campana
"Strange proceedings aboard the Beagle"
"The greatest phenomena to which this world is subject"
Adventures on the Andes' Atlantic coast
Galápagos
West of the one-hundred-eightieth meridian
Antipodes
"Round the world, like a flying Dutchman"
Part VI: Great Britain, 1836-1882. Odysseus returns
"Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work"
"The highest & most interesting problem for the naturalist"
Epilogue: advice for travelers

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3184712

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