The young Charles Darwin was like a young Indiana Jones. For five years in his mid-twenties, he sailed on the BEAGLE around the world, exploring jungles, climbing mountains, trekking across deserts. With every new landfall, he had new adventures: he rode through bandit country, was thrown into jail by revolutionaries, took part in an armed raid with marines, survived two earthquakes, hunted and fished. He suffered the terrible cold and rain of Tierra del Fuego, the merciless heat of the Australian outback and the inner pangs of heartbreak. He also made the discoveries that finally led him to formulate his theory of Natural Selection as the driving force of evolution. The five-year voyage of the BEAGLE was the basis for all Darwin's later work; but it also turned him from a friendly idler into the greatest scientist of his century.
- Price: $12.95
- Pages: 128
- Carton Quantity: 52
- Publisher: Leapfrog Press
- Imprint: Leapfrog Press
- Series: Seven Ships Maritime History
- Publication Date: 28th September 2021
- Trim Size: 5.1 x 7.8 in
- Illustration Note: B&W, Maps 2, Diagrams 4
- ISBN: 9781948585170
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical
“Kevin Jackson’s thrilling sea stories, told with verve, wit and dash, make the most gripping reading. Here are the men, women, ships and adventures which made so much of the modern world, and Britain’s place within it. Sir Francis Drake and Charles Darwin are lucky to have found such an erudite and elegant scribe as Kevin Jackson.” Horation Clare
The young Charles Darwin was like a young Indiana Jones. For five years in his mid-twenties, he sailed on the BEAGLE around the world, exploring jungles, climbing mountains, trekking across deserts. With every new landfall, he had new adventures: he rode through bandit country, was thrown into jail by revolutionaries, took part in an armed raid with marines, survived two earthquakes, hunted and fished. He suffered the terrible cold and rain of Tierra del Fuego, the merciless heat of the Australian outback and the inner pangs of heartbreak. He also made the discoveries that finally led him to formulate his theory of Natural Selection as the driving force of evolution. The five-year voyage of the BEAGLE was the basis for all Darwin's later work; but it also turned him from a friendly idler into the greatest scientist of his century.
- Price: $12.95
- Pages: 128
- Carton Quantity: 52
- Publisher: Leapfrog Press
- Imprint: Leapfrog Press
- Series: Seven Ships Maritime History
- Publication Date: 28th September 2021
- Trim Size: 5.1 x 7.8 in
- Illustrations Note: B&W, Maps 2, Diagrams 4
- ISBN: 9781948585170
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical
“Kevin Jackson’s thrilling sea stories, told with verve, wit and dash, make the most gripping reading. Here are the men, women, ships and adventures which made so much of the modern world, and Britain’s place within it. Sir Francis Drake and Charles Darwin are lucky to have found such an erudite and elegant scribe as Kevin Jackson.” Horation Clare