Jan 4, 2010

The Voyage of the Beagle | The Voyage of the Beagle

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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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