The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches

Charles Darwin

432 pages first pub 1839 (editions)

nonfiction history science travel adventurous informative slow-paced

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Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on...

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informative 85%
adventurous 71%
reflective 57%
challenging 42%
inspiring 42%
dark 14%
hopeful 14%
sad 14%

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medium 16%
fast 16%

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