The Voyage of the Beagle
Author(s): Charles Darwin
Genre(s): *non-fiction, Science, Travel & Geography
Narrators: Roger Turnau, Scott Robbins, Leon Mire, Gilles Lehoux, Catharine Eastman, J. M. Smallheer, M.C.Y., Claude Banta, Shubda, Rob Whelan, Anna Simon, Zachary Brewster-Geisz, Arouet, Gavin Smith, Karen Savage, Lizzie Driver, Laurie Anne Walden, Chris Chapman, Carol Goode, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Joseph Ugoretz
Number of Chapters: 48
Length: 21 hours and 50 minutes
Language: English
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were still discovering and exploring much of the rest of the world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the chapters of the book are ordered by reference to places and locations rather than chronologically. With hindsight, ideas which Darwin would later develop into his theory of evolution by natural selection are hinted at in his notes and in the book (Summary from Wikipedia)