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  • ISBN: 9780802160188
  • ISBN: 0802160182
  • Physical Description: vii, 501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.

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Map on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index;
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PART ONE PRELUDE -- The Selection of Darwin -- "A ... Read More
Summary, etc.:
"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist ... Read More
Subject: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 > Influence.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Beagle Expedition (1831-1836)
Evolution (Biology)
Natural history.
Naturalists > Great Britain > Biography.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Evolution (Biology)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Natural history.
Great Britain.
Genre: Biography.
Biographies.
Biographies.
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24514. ‡aThe evolution of Charles Darwin : ‡bthe epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth / ‡cDiana Preston.
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250 . ‡aFirst edition.
250 . ‡aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bAtlantic Monthly Press, ‡c2022.
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5050 . ‡aPART ONE PRELUDE -- The Selection of Darwin -- "A Birthday for the Rest of My Life" -- PART TWO THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE -- "Like Giving a Blind Man Eyes" -- "Red-Hot with Spiders" -- "Gigantic Land Animals" -- Land of Fire -- "Truly Savage Inhabitants" -- Res Nullius -- El Naturalista Don Carlos -- "Great Monsters" -- The Furies -- "The Very Highest Pleasures" -- "Skating on Very Thin Ice" -- "Eternal Rambling" -- The Enchanted Islands -- Aphrodite's Island -- "Not a Pleasant Place" -- "A Rising Infant" -- "Myriads of Tiny Architects" -- "A Great Name among the Naturalists of Europe" -- PART THREE AFTER THE BEAGLE -- "A Peacock Admiring His Tail" -- "It Is Like Confessing a Murder" -- "Most Hasty and Extraordinary Things" -- "I Shall Be Forestalled" -- Natural Selection -- "The Clerk of the Weather" -- "We Are All Soon to Go" -- Darwin's Legacy -- POSTSCRIPT "Weep for Patagonia."
520 . ‡a"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection. Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin's and FitzRoy's own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin's growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains or ride hundreds of miles, accompanied by local guides whose languages he barely understood, across pampas and through rainforests in search of further unique specimens. From the wilds of Patagonia to the Galápagos and other Atlantic and Pacific islands, as Preston vibrantly relates, he collected and contrasted giant fossils and volcanic rocks, observed the Argentinian rhea, Falklands fox, and Galápagos finch, through which he began to discern connections between deep past and present. Darwin never left Britain again after his return in 1836, though his mind journeyed far and wide to develop the theories that were first revealed, after great delay and with trepidation about their reception, in 1859 with the publication of his epochal book On the Origin of Species. Offering a unique portrait of one of history's most consequential figures, The Evolution of Charles Darwin is a vital contribution to our understanding of life on Earth"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
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