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Charles Darwin: Voyaging volume I

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Learn about Darwin’s 5-year expedition on the Beagle that transformed him from a failed medical student into possibly the greatest figure in 19th century science.

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Charles Darwin: Voyaging volume I

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Author E. Janet Browne captures Darwin’s spirit of a quiet revolutionary and sets the scene for the birth of his evolutionary theory. Few lives of great men offer so much interest and so many mysteries as the life of Charles Darwin, whose ideas still inspire discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Voyaging, the first of 2 volumes, gives us a vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist