Charles Darwin's Beagle DiaryCambridge University Press, 24 mei 2001 - 464 pagina's A fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made, providing an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelogue that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy.From the reviews:' a record of his immediate feelings, the sea-sickness, the triumphs of his palaeontological finds, close shaves with General Rosas and military activity in Patagonia, dringking maté and smoking cigarilloes with the Gaucho, the stars glittering over the Andes vivid and expressive...'Janet Browne |
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Introduction | xi |
Acknowledgements | xxv |
Note on editorial policy | xxvi |
Principal sources of references | xxviii |
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