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The evolution of Charles Darwin : the epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth / Diana Preston.

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General Note:	Map on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index;
Formatted Contents Note:	PART ONE PRELUDE -- The Selection of Darwin -- "A Birthday for the Rest of My Life" -- PART TWO THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE -- "Like Giving a Blind Man Eyes" -- "Red-Hot with Spiders" -- "Gigantic Land Animals" -- Land of Fire -- "Truly Savage Inhabitants" -- Res Nullius -- El Naturalista Don Carlos -- "Great Monsters" -- The Furies -- "The Very Highest Pleasures" -- "Skating on Very Thin Ice" -- "Eternal Rambling" -- The Enchanted Islands -- Aphrodite's Island -- "Not a Pleasant Place" -- "A Rising Infant" -- "Myriads of Tiny Architects" -- "A Great Name among the Naturalists of Europe" -- PART THREE AFTER THE BEAGLE -- "A Peacock Admiring His Tail" -- "It Is Like Confessing a Murder" -- "Most Hasty and Extraordinary Things" -- "I Shall Be Forestalled" -- Natural Selection -- "The Clerk of the Weather" -- "We Are All Soon to Go" -- Darwin's Legacy -- POSTSCRIPT "Weep for Patagonia."