Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World by Tom Chaffin instant download

Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World by Tom Chaffin instant download

An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin's formative years and adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.
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 voyage is frequently misunderstood, its mission and geographical breadth unacknowledged. The voyage's activities associated with South America—particularly its stop in the Galapagos archipelago, off Ecuador's coast—eclipse the fact that the Beagle, sailing in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean waters, also circumnavigated the globe.
Mere happenstance placed...