The Evolution of Charles Darwin
Book description
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man
When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with…
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Why read it?
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Having spent a year sailing the remote channels of Tierra del Fuego, I devour any book that recalls the formative time that a young Charles Darwin spent in these waters, aboard HMS Beagle. There is little - if any - new research here, but Diana Preston writes fluently and engagingly. Darwin's evolving view of the world is well-captured - the title is apposite.