The Voyage of the Beagle
Subtitle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: Steve Jones (Introduction)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: March 13, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780375756801
First sentence: After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern 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.