Creator
Charles Darwin
Title
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by the H.M.S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy
Coverage
London
Publisher
Henry Colburn
Date
1839
Subject
Bound in original green publishers’ cloth
Description
An early report of Darwin’s scientific fieldwork aboard the HMS Beagle from 1832 to 1835. Although it predates On the Origin of Species (1859) by twenty years, Darwin’s Journal of Researches contains hints of the views that would later develop into his theory of evolution.
This is the first separate edition of the text. It was originally issued as the third volume in The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, 4 vols. (1839).