| Description |
xix, 428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2002. |
| Contents |
The man who walks with Henslow -- The strange consequences of stealing a whale-boat -- Preparations for the voyage -- From Plymouth to the Cape Verde Islands -- Across the equator to Bahia -- Rio de Janeiro -- An unquiet trip from Monte Video to Buenos Aires -- Digging up fossils in the cliffs at Bahia Blanca -- The return of the Fuegians to their homeland -- First visit to the Falkland Islands -- Collecting around Maldonado -- A meeting with General Rosas on the ride from Patagones to Buenos Aires and Santa Fé -- The last of Monte Video -- Christmas day at Port Desire, and on to Port St. Julian and Port Famine -- Goodbye to Jemmy Button and Tierra del Fuego -- Second visit to the Falkland Islands -- Ascent of the Rio Santa Cruz -- Through the straits of Magellan to Valparaiso -- Valparaiso and Santiago -- Chiloe and the Chonos Archipelago -- The great earthquake of 1835 hits Valdivia and Concepción -- On horseback from Santiago to Mendoza, and back over the Uspallata Pass -- A last ride in the Andes, from Valparaiso to Copiapó -- The wreck of HMS Challenger -- From Copiapó to Lima -- The Galapagos Islands -- Across the Pacific to Tahiti -- New Zealand -- Australia -- Cocos keeling Islands -- Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, St Helena and Ascension Island -- A quick dash to Bahia and home to Falmouth -- Harvesting the evidence -- Farewell to Robert FitzRoy. |
| Summary |
"When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern full-length account of Darwin's epoch-making expedition."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Beagle Expedition (1831-1836)
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Travel.
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Natural history.
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| ISBN |
0195166493 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780195166491 cloth alkaline paper |
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