Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians
Subtitle: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: March 14, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780195166491
Description: "When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern full-length account of Darwin's epoch-making expedition."--Jacket.