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# The Voyage of the Beagle (illustrated)

**Brand:** charles darwin
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The Voyage of the Beagle (illustrated)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Madly in love with nature
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018*

We are in 1839, Darwin just came back from a five years adventure around the world (Canary Islands, South America and Oceania) and is sharing his diary with us. This guy was madly in love with nature so this book is quite entertaining. He often says that cannot express his feeling while describing flora/fauna/geography but used words like: delight, pleasure, delicious, astonishment,  remarkable and so on. Those are not words you would use to describe jungles. This is work of wild curiosity. Sometimes the text is even poetic but he is also honest saying things like “We are profoundly ignorant about the conditions of existence every animal”. But the show starts after the middle of the book right after his visit to the Galapagos Islands. You may have goosebumps when he makes the following note “I obtained sufficient materials to establish this most remarkable fact in the distribution of organic beings”.  Twenty years later he writes “The Origin of Species”  (1959) changing our view of life forever.

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    A poor rendition
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2019*

This a poor quality rendition of Darwin’s classic.  It lacked any background information, preface or commentary.  There were many missing illustrations.  The print quality was poor, with no paragraph separations or indentations and large blank spaces on some pages.  Spend a little more and get a much better rendition of this classic

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Charles Darwin-Naturalist, Poet, Adventurer
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2006*

I learned a lot about Darwin in this book that I simply didn't know beforehand.  The most important is what an exceptional writer he was.  If he had never published his Origin of Species and become famous by it, this book would still be a classic, if not of science, than certainly of literature.  His prose, while necessarily more pedestrian, reminds me more than anything of the prose of another famous naturalist, Thoreau (who actually quotes the "Naturalist Darwin" in Walden from this book regarding the natives of Tierra Del Fuego).The "scientific detail" cited by another reviewer did not bog down the prose at all, a remarkable feat....a talent also found in Thoreau.  The famed passage on The Galapagos was indeed interesting.  But the most scientifically intriguing passages, I found, had to do with barrier reefs and atolls and how they come to be...I almost said "evolve"....But perhaps that would be premature for this book. In any event, I've never read a scientific account so riveting and fascinating as Darwin's on this subject given herein.But, as I say, I learned quite a bit about Darwin as a young man, ready for adventure, risks, and brimming with curiosity.  He is almost as much a poet as scientist in some passages, quoting Shelley at one point, and he fortifies his narrative with a poignancy absent in most scientific accounts.  This stylistic flavour is evident in many passages, but I'll just proffer one from the end of the narrative:"In my walk I stopped again and again to gaze upon these beauties, and endevoured to fix in my mind and for ever, an impression which at the time I knew sooner or later must fail.  The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the tree-fern, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite these into one perfect scene must fade away: yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures." (P.444, in my edition)Whether as poetic or scientific, this work is virtuosic and unsurpassed in its seamless melding of the two.  I'll leave the reader to decide which s/he enjoys the most.

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