Read For Free Fossils, Finches And Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures And Discoveries On The Beagle Constructed By Richard D. Keynes Made Available In Paper Copy

teoria da evolução das espécies é bastante conhecida, assim como o seu autor Charles Darwin, Sabemos a base de seu pensamento e trazemos na memória a imagem de sua figura de longas barbas brancas, feição austera e circunspecta, Mas não há nada como acompanhar, por meio deste livro, o dia a dia da grande aventura de descobertas que foi a viagem do também famoso navio Beagle, com sua incansável tripulação, que passou pelo Brasil, explorou extensas áreas da Patagônia, dos Pampas argentinos, a Terra do Fogo, o litoral da América do Sul e as ilhas Galápagos, assim como outras regiões e ilhas dos vastos oceanos, antes de retornar à Inglaterra.
Nele encontramos um Darwin incrivelmente jovem, que tudo observa, registra, questiona, revelando uma necessidade de

conhecimento admirável, portando modernos apetrechos tecnológicos para tudo avaliar, Um livro repleto de aventuras em cada passagem, em cada descoberta, Uma leitura agradável, que traz informações científicas, históricas, geográficas e, para aqueles mais atentos, possivelmente o desenvolvimento intelectual e psicológico do jovem Darwin, uma abordagem distante daquela que normalmente estamos acostumados.
A good read for any Darwinophile, The author Darwins great grandson pulls together primary sources Darwins journals, his letters to and from home, and letters from others on the boat to tell the story of Darwins voyages on the beagle.
The focus is on his scientific observations and the book highlights many of the threads he followed throughout the voyage, like geology and invertebrate zoology, Much of the book is direct quotes and passages from the primary sources, and its weakest part is the authors own writing, which can be repetitive and trite, I read this on the Kindle, which was a mistake, because there are a number of plates, mostly art by the artist on the Beagle, which add to it, so I bought the hard copy towards the end so I could have those.
Maybe not for the casual read of Darwinalia, but a nice framing of Darwins voyages for those that want a bit more depth than you get in most biographies.
A narrative of Darwin's voyages to South America that is rich in detail from Darwin's travels, Includes many illustrations by Conrad Martens who eventually set up his own painting studio, Much on his specific observations of plants, animals and the geology, When Charles Darwin, then age, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world, " But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years.
Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern fulllength account of Darwin's epochmaking expedition, This was the great adventure of Charles Darwin's life, Indeed, it would have been a great adventure for anyonetracking condor in Chile, surviving the great earthquake of, riding across country on horseback in the company of gauchos, watching whales leaping skyward off Tierra del Fuego, hunting ostriches with a bolo, discovering prehistoric fossils and previously unknown species, and meeting primitive peoples such as the Fuegians.
Keynes captures many of the natural wonders that Darwin witnessed, including an incredible swarm of butterflies a mile wide and ten miles long, Keynes also illuminates Darwin's scientific workhis important findings in geology and biologyand traces the slow revolution in Darwin's thought about species and how they might evolve, Numerous illustrationsmostly by artists who traveled with Darwin on the Beaglegrace the pages, including finely rendered drawings of many points of interest discussed in the book, There has probably been no greater or more important scientific expedition than Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, Packed with colorful details of life aboard ship and in the wild, here is a fascinating portrait of Charles Darwin and ofth century science, .