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The Voyage of the Beagle
Prefatory Notice to the Illustrated Edition
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Released on: 18/11/2017
e of the most interesting narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to take up, a
popularity of this book with all classes of readers - and that popularity has even increased in recent years. No attempt, however, has hitherto been made to produce an illustrated edition of this valuab
rwin's book by his side. Some few of the others are taken from engravings which Mr. Darwin had himsel
, and it is believed that the illustrations, which have been chosen and verified with the utm
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The Voyage of the Beagle
“The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. This was the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, the other volumes of which were written or edited by the commanders of the ships. Journal and Remarks covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it later in 1839 as Darwin's Journal of Researches, and the revised second edition published in 1845 used this title. A republication of the book in 1905 introduced the title The Voyage of the "Beagle", by which it is now best known.”