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Title: The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin, Janet Browne, Michael Neve, Michael Neue ISBN: 0-14-043268-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Darwin's best
Comment: Forget the image of the grim, ancient, grey-bearded savant. By the time those pictures were taken Darwin was long past his energetic prime. BEAGLE catches him literally starting out on his life-long voyage of discovery at a time when he was still extremely physically active and just beginning to come to grips with the seriousness of his interest in Natural History. Later in life he said that the VOYAGE was his personal favorite of all his writings, and one can see why. Darwin set off young, energetic, but frankly naieve & a little foolish (his father ahd written to him at Cambridge saying that he feared that he would never amount to much, and apart from his work with Henslow, much of his college career seems to have been devoted to what we would now call "partying hearty") He returned a seasoned naturalist and explorer, with the germ of his Great Idea firmly implanted. While in many ways VOYAGE is describing a vanished world, Darwin's keen eye for detail renders each landscape with such clarity that one feels that one is really along for the trip -and, thank goodness, some of the places he went to are still there for us to go & wonder at. There is no Big Theory here, just an enormous sense of wonder and excitement, with little of the periodic homesickness that shows up in the letters that he was writing during the voyage. Perhaps most intriguing is the remarkably SHORT section on the Galapagos -I remember thinking the first time that I read the VOYAGE "Wait, but wasn't the Galapagos THE Big Deal?" No, not to read it here in the original. One gets the sense that many of Darwins fundamental beliefs were already in gestation long before he left the coast of South America & by the time he gets to the Galapagos, he is increasingly anxious to be home & working it all out. Make sure that you get a COMPLETE version of the Voyage, there are many editions (including abbridgements) out there.
Rating: 1
Summary: Caution, this is an abridgement.
Comment: I bought this version when I could not find my old copy. On trying to find a favorite passage (Darwin's revulsion at a parasitic wasp in Brazil and the inconsistency of such cruelty with any providential design of nature by a good God), I noticed that it was not there. I do not know what else is missing. I find it infuriating that this was not adequately noted on the cover of the book. I always prefer books as the author wrote them, especially when the author is Darwin. This is a lively, beautiful and haunting work that I first read when I was thirteen and have read twice since. Readers deserve the whole thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: ONE OF THE BEST
Comment: One of the best "travel" books of all times. A must read for any student of Darwin and a must read for anyone interested in detailed writing, travel and preceptions from another age.
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Title: Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ISBN: 0517123207 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 22 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Galapagos: A Natural History by Michael H. Jackson ISBN: 1895176409 Publisher: University of Calgary Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner ISBN: 067973337X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Galapagos Islands Map by Treaty Oak, Kevin Healey ISBN: 0921463340 Publisher: ITMB Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: An Identification Guide to the Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Galpagos Islands by Andy Swash, Robert Still, Ian Lewington, Rob Still ISBN: 0300088647 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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