(Original Caption) 1890-Illustration of the H.M.S. Beagle. Bettmann Archive. RELYING exclusively for its material on archival sources, the nonfiction book Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle ...

A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been ...

I have recently read “The Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin, abridged by Millicent E. Selsam. It documents Darwin’s five-year circumnavigation of the earth aboard HMS Beagle, a British warship.

THERE is no book of travels so famous, so instructive or so widely read as the second edition of Darwin's “Naturalist's Voyage round the World”. The so-called first edition was published as ...

An ambitious 18-year project has virtually reassembled the complete library of naturalist Charles Darwin for the first time since he died in 1882.

Charles Lyell had published the “Principles of Geology” just as Darwin was setting out on the HMS Beagle; “I had brought with me the first volume . . . which I studied attentively,” Darwin ...

Darwin's first—and only—trip around the world began a scientific revolution. The plants and animals encountered on the five-year voyage of the 'Beagle' provided the foundation for Charles ...

During the five-year-long voyage of the Beagle, Darwin compiled 1.383 pages of notes about geology. By comparison, the biological observations that made him famous comprised a mere 368 pages.

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, Melvyn Bragg presents a series about Darwin's life and ...