Writing tagged: ‘beagle voyage’
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Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy’s name will forever be associated with Charles Darwin’s. But he deserves to be remembered for his own many achievements.
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A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
On Charles Darwin’s miserable 23rd birthday (his first aboard HMS Beagle).
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Book review: ‘Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, adventure, and swimming iguana’s in Charles Darwin’s South America’ by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
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Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Keith S Thomson
The ship that changed the course of history.
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Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Meticulously detailed ship’s plans of HMS Beagle, for anyone thinking of making a model or replica!
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Book review: ‘Fossils, Finches and Fuegians’ by Richard Keynes
Charles Darwin’s adventures and siscoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary’ by R.D. Keynes (ed.)
An annotated version of the journal Darwin kept aboard HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World.
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185 years ago today…
On 22nd May, 1826, His Majesty’s Ship ‘Beagle’ set sail from Plymouth on a surveying voyage to South America.
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Serendipitous juxtaposition
Two items just came up one after the other on my RSS reader. Their juxtaposition pleased me.
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25-Nov-1835: HMS Beagle entertains a royal visitor
…in the ‘large awkward’ shape of Queen Pōmarre of Tahiti.