Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' round the world ...
By: by Charles Darwin.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Natural history.; Geology.; Voyages around the world.; South America -- Description and travel.
First sentence: After having been 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 Davenport on the 27th of December, 1831.