Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle Contributor(s): Jackson, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1948585170 ISBN-13: 9781948585170 Publisher: Leapfrog Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Maritime History & Piracy - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.04" W x 7.64" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages |
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Publisher Description: The young Charles Darwin was like a young Indiana Jones. For five years in his mid-twenties, he sailed on the BEAGLE around the world, exploring jungles, climbing mountains, trekking across deserts. With every new landfall, he had new adventures: he rode through bandit country, was thrown into jail by revolutionaries, took part in an armed raid with marines, survived two earthquakes, hunted and fished. He suffered the terrible cold and rain of Tierra del Fuego, the merciless heat of the Australian outback and the inner pangs of heartbreak. He also made the discoveries that finally led him to formulate his theory of Natural Selection as the driving force of evolution. The five-year voyage of the BEAGLE was the basis for all Darwin's later work; but it also turned him from a friendly idler into the greatest scientist of his century. |