In the wake of the Beagle
Subtitle: science in the southern oceans from the age of Darwin
By: edited by Iain McCalman and Nigel Erskine
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781921410949
Description: Strange as it may seem, the long wake of the tiny HMS Beagle stretches from the nineteenth century into the future of our globe. Charles Darwin spent only three months in Australia, but Australasia and the Pacific contributed to his evolutionary thinking in a variety of ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-189) and index.