This is the first full edition of the notebooks used by Darwin during his epic voyage in the Beagle. It contains transcriptions of all fifteen notebooks, which now survive as some of the most precious documents in the history of science. The notebooks record the entire range of Darwin's interests and activities during the Beagle journey, with observations on geology, zoology, botany, ecology, barometer and thermometer readings, ethnography, anthropology, archaeology and linguistics, along with maps, drawings, financial records, shopping lists, reading notes, essays and personal diary entries. Some of Darwin's critical discoveries and experiences, made famous through his own publications, are recorded in their most immediate form in the notebooks, and published here for the first time. The notebook texts are accompanied by full editorial apparatus and introductions explaining Darwin's actions at each stage, focussing on discoveries that were pivotal to convincing him that life on Earth had evolved.
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'Not until now has it been possible to read in book form the immediate notes that Darwin himself had written in the little field notebooks that he carried with him … which takes us all the way to what a young man born two hundred years ago once saw when he was for some years very far from home.' Richard Darwin Keynes, editor of Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (Cambridge University Press) and great-grandson of Darwin
'This is the first time that Darwin's day-to-day notebooks from the Beagle voyage have been published in their entirety and the result is quite simply stunning. … The result is to render what is often considered to be the least readable of all Darwin's material instantly accessible and engaging for all. … hardly a page goes by without some gem jumping out and hinting at the scientific giant he would become.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'This is the first time that Darwin's day-to-day notebooks from the Beagle voyage have been published in their entirety and the result is quite simply stunning. … The result is to render what is often considered to be the least readable of all Darwin's material instantly accessible and engaging for all. … hardly a page goes by without some gem jumping out and hinting at the scientific giant he would become.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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This is the first full edition of the fifteen notebooks used by Darwin during his Beagle voyage, which record his activities and interests in their most immediate form. The texts are accompanied by full editorial apparatus and introductions, focussing on discoveries convincing Darwin that life on Earth had evolved.
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This publication is one of the best insights into the voyage of the Beagle and in particular the greatness of Charles Darwin in being able to incorporate all the different aspects of the flora fauna and animals which he met and/or discovered and explain in great detail how they impacted on our knowledge of the natural world and how the progession of natural selection had brought nature to that point in time. Very detailled and a joy to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves nature and the development of all life on our planet.
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By Brian D. Ray
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A very detailed and wondeful book for fans of Darwin and the Beagle voyage round S. America and the Galapagos Islands. A book to dip into from time to time. Having cruised some the passages that the Beagle took and also to the Galapagos Islands I am facinated to learn about these areas in Darwin's time. A very cherished book.
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By J. Mosedale
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This volume is an incomparable contribution to Darwinian scholarship. As well as the transcription of all the 15 Beagle notebooks, the authors supply energetic and elegant overviews of each, outlining the place the volume holds in the development of Darwinian theory. The minute geological zoological and botanical observations which served as the basic findings for the Origin of Species that we would expect, are accompanied by accounts of, for instance, the lot of local workers;descriptions of the demeanour of the inhabitants; meals to be endured rather than enjoyed: "savollas and water', and many other privations and dangers that the traveller suffered as well as the occasional delight: 'nobody knows the pleasure of reading till a few days of such indolence.' Copious illustrations add important detail. Absorbing and fascinating.
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