Charles Darwin
By: Alan Gibbons ; illustrated by Leo Brown
Contributors: Brown, Leo J., ill
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780753417294; 9780753462515
Description: James Kincaid, a fictional ship's assistant to Charles Darwin, maintains a diary which tells of the journey of one of the world's most groundbreaking scientific studies aboard the HMS Beagle.
Notes: "Discover the world of Darwin through the diary of a ship's boy"--Cover, p. 1.

"Celebrating the Bicentenary of Darwin's birth"--Cover, p. 1.

Includes index.

Includes map on end pages.
Table of contents: title: James' diary; title: What happened next?; title: On the open seas; title: 19th-century science; title: Glossary; title: Index.