Voyage of the Beagle: Part 29 Harvard Classics
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780766182141 (0766182142)
Publish date: January 1st 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Pages no: 556
Edition language: English
The Beagle was sent on a surveying mission by the Royal Navy; initially it was intended to last three years but it was extended to five and the ship circumnavigated the globe. The captain, Fitzroy, wanted a companion on the voyage and through a convoluted series of events, ended up with a youthful D...
'Darwin changed forever our understanding of life on Earth'. Jo Stone-Fewings reads from the journal of his historic voyage.