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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822988903321

Autore

Darwin Charles <1809-1882.>

Titolo

The Voyage of the Beagle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, : The Floating Press, 2008

ISBN

1-77556-455-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (866 p.)

Disciplina

508/.092

508.8

Soggetti

Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) Natural history

Geology

South America -- Description and travel

Voyages around the world

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title; 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 CordilleraChapter 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; Endnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin''s five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to



evolve into Darwin''s theory of natural selection find their naissance in Voyage of the Beagle .