The Voyage of the Beagle

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The Voyage of the Beagle

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ISBN: 9781853264764
author: Charles Darwin
publishing house: 1-85326
publication date: 1997 -4
price: CNY 48.00
number of pages: 496

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This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin's speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty, sublimity and otherness which language could barely capture. This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin's speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.
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length: (cm)19.8                 width:(cm)12.6

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