The evolution of Charles Darwin : the epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth / Diana Preston.

"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Preston, Diana, 1952- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence. Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882. Beagle Expedition > (1831-1836) Evolution (Biology) Natural history. Naturalists > Great Britain > Biography. HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries. SCIENCE / Natural History. SCIENCE / Life Sciences. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Great Britain. Biography. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	vii, 501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth
Format:	Book

Contents:

PART ONE PRELUDE
The Selection of Darwin
"A Birthday for the Rest of My Life"
PART TWO THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
"Like Giving a Blind Man Eyes"
"Red-Hot with Spiders"
"Gigantic Land Animals"
Land of Fire
"Truly Savage Inhabitants"
Res Nullius
El Naturalista Don Carlos
"Great Monsters"
The Furies
"The Very Highest Pleasures"
"Skating on Very Thin Ice"
"Eternal Rambling"
The Enchanted Islands
Aphrodite's Island
"Not a Pleasant Place"
"A Rising Infant"
"Myriads of Tiny Architects"
"A Great Name among the Naturalists of Europe"
PART THREE AFTER THE BEAGLE
"A Peacock Admiring His Tail"
"It Is Like Confessing a Murder"
"Most Hasty and Extraordinary Things"
"I Shall Be Forestalled"
Natural Selection
"The Clerk of the Weather"
"We Are All Soon to Go"
Darwin's Legacy
POSTSCRIPT "Weep for Patagonia."