The Voyage of the Beagle

HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley
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HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley

The Voyage of the Beagle, published in 1839, is Charles Darwin's memoir of the five-year journey he took on the ship HMS Beagle, beginning in 1831, when he was 22. The book brought him considerable fame and respect.

The Voyage of the Beagle is a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen power of obervation, as well as an exciting travel memoir, in a time when Westerners were still discovering much of the rest of the world. It also hints at ideas that Darwin would later develop into the theory of evolution.

Contents

The book's contents tells us where he went:

  • Preface
  1. St. Jago -- Cape de Verd Islands
  2. Rio de Janeiro
  3. Maldonado
  4. Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca
  5. Bahia Blanca
  6. Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres
  7. Buenos Ayres and St. Fe
  8. Banda Oriental and Patagonia
  9. Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and The Falkland Islands
  10. Tierra del Fuego
  11. Strait of Magellan. -- Climate of the Southern Coasts
  12. Central Chile
  13. Chiloe and Chonos Islands
  14. Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake
  15. Passage of the Cordillera
  16. Northern Chile and Peru
  17. Galapagos Archipelago
  18. Tahiti and New Zealand
  19. Australia
  20. Keeling Island: -- Coral Formations
  21. Mauritius to England

External links

  • Voyage of the Beagle (http://charles-darwin.classic-literature.co.uk/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/) Full Text.
  • full text (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/voyage_of_beagle/index.shtml)


Charles Darwin Topics relating to Charles Darwin
Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin;

Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin)

Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection.
Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge



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