The Voyage of the Beagle
Series: Great Minds Series
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9781573927734
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Evolution; Other prose: 19th century; South America; History; 18th And 19th Century Description And Travel; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Evolution; 19th century; Voyages around the world; General; (1831-1836); Beagle Expedition; Geology; Natural History
First sentence: AFTER having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831.