Book Details
Title: The Voyage of Charles Darwin; His autobiographical writings selected and arranged by Christopher Ralling for the PBS series
Author: Charles Darwin, selected and arranged by Christopher Ralling
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Mayflower Books
Year: 1979
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 183
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 8317 9212 4
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. It shows wear through rubbing and creasing to edges, ends and corners. There are also some small tears at a couple of the corners and superficial scuffing. On the underside of the dust jacket, somebody has written in green marker of what appears to be the name of a road.
The hardcover likewise shows signs of wear through rubbing to edges, ends and corners. Also some bumping to corners. Some fading in colour in places. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean (apart from what seems to be the letter 's' in the top right hand corner of the front-end page).
The pages are clean and intact. There is a small tear on the top edge of the back-end page.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1831 Charles Darwin had just graduated from Cambridge, where he had made his mark far more as a sportsman than as a scholar, and where he himself felt that his time had been, 'Wasted, and more than wasted.' He was destined by his family for the Church. But the offer of a place as naturalist on board HMS Beagle, shortly to sail on an Admiralty survey around the world, changed the direction of his life; and that change was to shake Victorian society to its roots when 'The Origin of Species' was eventually published in 1859.
In later life he became a very sick and private man, living the life of a near-recluse; but the Darwin we meet in his own youthful writings is very different: vigorous, enthusiastic, warmly humanitarian, communicating in vivid, direct language his feelings of awe at the magnificence and multiplicity of nature and, above all, a sense of exhilarating adventure that is never dimmed by the miseries of sea-and home-sickness.
'The Voyage of Charles Darwin for the first time presents a selection of Darwin's autobiographical writings in a single volume illustrating the events and scenes of that momentous journey. The sources are his Diary, the later Journal which is based on it, and the short Autobiography which his wife persuaded him to write for their children towards the end of his life. Throughout the voyage he pursued many lines of inquiry, but as the selection shows, it is possible to follow the growth and progress of the thought which was to lead to the theory of natural selection, against the framework of an absorbing adventure story."
Book Details
Title: The Voyage of Charles Darwin; His autobiographical writings selected and arranged by Christopher Ralling for the PBS series
Author: Charles Darwin, selected and arranged by Christopher Ralling
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Mayflower Books
Year: 1979
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 183
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 8317 9212 4
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. It shows wear through rubbing and creasing to edges, ends and corners. There are also some small tears at a couple of the corners and superficial scuffing. On the underside of the dust jacket, somebody has written in green marker of what appears to be the name of a road.
The hardcover likewise shows signs of wear through rubbing to edges, ends and corners. Also some bumping to corners. Some fading in colour in places. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean (apart from what seems to be the letter 's' in the top right hand corner of the front-end page).
The pages are clean and intact. There is a small tear on the top edge of the back-end page.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1831 Charles Darwin had just graduated from Cambridge, where he had made his mark far more as a sportsman than as a scholar, and where he himself felt that his time had been, 'Wasted, and more than wasted.' He was destined by his family for the Church. But the offer of a place as naturalist on board HMS Beagle, shortly to sail on an Admiralty survey around the world, changed the direction of his life; and that change was to shake Victorian society to its roots when 'The Origin of Species' was eventually published in 1859.
In later life he became a very sick and private man, living the life of a near-recluse; but the Darwin we meet in his own youthful writings is very different: vigorous, enthusiastic, warmly humanitarian, communicating in vivid, direct language his feelings of awe at the magnificence and multiplicity of nature and, above all, a sense of exhilarating adventure that is never dimmed by the miseries of sea-and home-sickness.
'The Voyage of Charles Darwin for the first time presents a selection of Darwin's autobiographical writings in a single volume illustrating the events and scenes of that momentous journey. The sources are his Diary, the later Journal which is based on it, and the short Autobiography which his wife persuaded him to write for their children towards the end of his life. Throughout the voyage he pursued many lines of inquiry, but as the selection shows, it is possible to follow the growth and progress of the thought which was to lead to the theory of natural selection, against the framework of an absorbing adventure story."
