The Voyage of the Beagle (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Darwin
- First Published: 1839
- Type of Work: Nature writing
- Setting: South America and the South Seas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Nature writing
- Subjects: Voyages, Ships, South America or South Americans, Animals, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Ethnology, Natural history
- Locales: South America, South Sea
Critical Evaluation:
The Voyage of the Beagle shows the English naturalist Charles Darwin’s brilliant mind already at work on the problems that led to his seminal theory of evolution. The work’s title is somewhat misleading, for the author actually has little to say about the voyage. The original title of the serialized version—Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle—is a better reflection of the scope of the work.
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