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1) The voyage of the Beagle

Author

Darwin, Charles

Formats

Book, CD

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Charles Darwin was only 23 when he served as the naturalist aboard the surveying ship, H.M.S. Beagle. The notes he kept on the journey were to be the basis of this book.

2) What Darwin saw: the journey that changed the world

Author

Schanzer, Rosalyn

Pub. Date

2009

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1

3) Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure

Author

Thermes, Jennifer

Pub. Date

2016.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1

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Presents a picture book tracking the voyaging adventures of Charles Darwin, from his first voyage in 1831 going around South America to make his famous discoveries on the Galápagos Islands.

4) The evolution of Charles Darwin: the epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth

Author

Preston, Diana

Pub. Date

2022.

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"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...

5) The true adventures of Charley Darwin

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

Pub. Date

[2009]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 14

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In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.

6) Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world

Author

Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2022.

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"Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's...

7) From so simple a beginning: the four great books of Charles Darwin

Author

Darwin, Charles

Pub. Date

[2006]

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"Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin -- Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) -- been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions...

8) The origin of species: and, The voyage of the Beagle

Author

Darwin, Charles

Series

Everyman's library

Pub. Date

c2003

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Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin's The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the greatest importance: the revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection that it presented provoked a furious reaction that continues...