The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle, published in 1839, is Charles Darwin's memoir of the five-year journey he took on the ship HMS Beagle, beginning in 1831, when he was 22. The book brought him considerable fame and respect.

The Voyage of the Beagle is a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen power of obervation, as well as an exciting travel memoir, in a time when Westerners were still discovering much of the rest of the world. It also hints at ideas that Darwin would later develop into the theory of evolution.

Contents

The book's contents tells us where he went:

• Preface

1. St. Jago -- Cape de Verd Islands
2. Rio de Janeiro
3. Maldonado
4. Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca
5. Bahia Blanca
6. Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres
7. Buenos Ayres and St. Fe
8. Banda Oriental and Patagonia
9. Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and The Falkland Islands
10. Tierra del Fuego
11. Strait of Magellan. -- Climate of the Southern Coasts
12. Central Chile
13. Chiloe and Chonos Islands
14. Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake
15. Passage of the Cordillera
16. Northern Chile and Peru
17. Galapagos Archipelago
18. Tahiti and New Zealand
19. Australia
20. Keeling Island: -- Coral Formations
21. Mauritius to England