Moorehead, Alan, — Darwin and the Beagle.

NY, Harper & Row, (1969). 3rd imp. VG in VG DJ. At 22 Darwin was offered the post of naturalist on board HMS Beagle, a ten-gun brig sent by the Admiralty on a surveying. voyage around the world lasting 5 years. For the young Darwin this was a great & exhilirating adventure and the beginning of a whole new conception of the origin and evolution of various species of life on earth. A few decades later it was to revolutionize most of the beliefs hitherto held sacred.