Voyage of the Beagle

Name: Voyage of the Beagle
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9798868728297

Author: Charles Darwin

Narrator: Andrew Jackson

Unabridged: 21 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Loudly

Published: 03/21/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Essays & Travelogues

Synopsis

"Voyage of the Beagle" is a renowned travel memoir written by Charles Darwin, chronicling his five-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle, which sailed from 1831 to 1836. The book provides a vivid account of Darwin's experiences, observations, and discoveries during the voyage, particularly focusing on the natural history, geology, and anthropology of the places he visited, including South America, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and Tahiti.

About Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, geologist, biologist, and author, revolutionized the science of biology by developing the theory of evolution by natural selection. Among his important works are On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. A journal that he kept during a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle eventually was published as The Voyage of the Beagle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on September 18, 2019

To listen to this book review as a podcast, click below: [URL not allowed] __________________________ This book is really a rare treasure. Is there anything comparable? Here we have the very man whose ideas have revolutionized completely our understanding of life, writing with ch......more

Goodreads review by Orhan on October 26, 2021

The Voyage of the Beagle written by Charles Darwin is a collection of his travel memoirs, from the time he was 22 to 27 years of age, during which period he circumnavigated the globe with the second expedition of the HMS Beagle (1831-1836). This hardcover edition is a physically beautiful book with c......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 08, 2022

Charles Darwin set sail onboard the HMS Beagle on the 27th of December, 1831 and didn’t return to England until the 2nd of October, 1836. An accounting of this endeavor’s observations and discoveries was first published in 1839 as “Charles Darwin’s Journal and Remarks.” It was so popular that it was......more

Goodreads review by Trish on March 08, 2019

This book is Charles Darwin's journal of his 5-year voyage on the HMS Beagle. This journey marked the second of Captain Fitzroy and the Beagle but the first for 22-year-old Charles Darwin, who had decided to become a naturalist like Alexander von Humboldt. Darwin had stopped studying medicine and refu......more