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Book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage  1831 1836 Vol 2

Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage 1831 1836 Vol 2 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Book The Voyage of the Beagle

Download or read book The Voyage of the Beagle written by Charles Darwin and published by Hayes Barton Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opmålingsskibet "Beagle"s togt til Sydamerika og videre jorden rundt

Book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage  1831 1836 Vol 2

Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage 1831 1836 Vol 2 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage  1831 1836 Vol 4

Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage 1831 1836 Vol 4 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage  1831 1836 Vol 1

Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage 1831 1836 Vol 1 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage  1831 1836 Vol 3

Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage 1831 1836 Vol 3 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Book Darwin  A Companion   With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Download or read book Darwin A Companion With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe written by Paul Van Helvert and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts, lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues, opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora, fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics. Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most previously unknown.

Book Four Centuries of Geological Travel

Download or read book Four Centuries of Geological Travel written by Patrick Wyse Jackson and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.

Book And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind

Download or read book And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind written by Bill Streever and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.

Book A History of the British Presence in Chile

Download or read book A History of the British Presence in Chile written by W. Edmundson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.

Book The History of the Tahitian Mission  1799 1830  Written by John Davies  Missionary to the South Sea Islands

Download or read book The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799 1830 Written by John Davies Missionary to the South Sea Islands written by C.W. Newbury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

Book Catalogue de la Biblioth  que du Parlement du Canada

Download or read book Catalogue de la Biblioth que du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn  Before and After Darwin

Download or read book European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn Before and After Darwin written by Anne Chapman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in Tierra del Fuego by the native Yamana, Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries.

Book Charles Darwin  Geologist

Download or read book Charles Darwin Geologist written by Sandra Herbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pleasure of imagination.... I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."--from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838 The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the biomedical sciences. In her long-awaited account of Charles Darwin's intellectual development, Sandra Herbert focuses on his geological training, research, and thought, asking both how geology influenced Darwin and how Darwin influenced the science. Elegantly written, extensively illustrated, and informed by the author's prodigious research in Darwin's papers and in the nineteenth-century history of earth sciences, Charles Darwin, Geologist provides a fresh perspective on the life and accomplishments of this exemplary thinker. As Herbert reveals, Darwin's great ambition as a young scientist--one he only partially realized--was to create a "simple" geology based on movements of the earth's crust. (Only one part of his scheme has survived in close to the form in which he imagined it: a theory explaining the structure and distribution of coral reefs.) Darwin collected geological specimens and took extensive notes on geology during all of his travels. His grand adventure as a geologist took place during the circumnavigation of the earth by H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836)--the same voyage that informed his magnum opus, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to England it was his geological findings that first excited scientific and public opinion. Geologists, including Darwin's former teachers, proved a receptive audience, the British government sponsored publication of his research, and the general public welcomed his discoveries about the earth's crust. Because of ill health, Darwin's years as a geological traveler ended much too soon: his last major geological fieldwork took place in Wales when he was only thirty-three. However, the experience had been transformative: the methods and hypotheses of Victorian-era geology, Herbert suggests, profoundly shaped Darwin's mind and his scientific methods as he worked toward a full-blown understanding of evolution and natural selection.

Book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin  Volume 1  1821 1836

Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 1 1821 1836 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-03-07 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters in Volume 9 provide another indispensable collection for those interested in Darwin's life, work, and world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Savage

Download or read book Savage written by Nick Hazlewood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit. In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre. In Nick Hazlewood's Savage, Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.