DARWIN, Charles; Robert FitzRoy; Phillip Parker King.

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Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, First edition of the Voyage of the Beagle, with the third volume, Darwin's Journal of Researches, being the first separate edition of his account. The popularity of Darwin's contribution to the series meant that his volume was reissued three months later as a standalone publication, the version present in this set.The first issue of Darwin's Journal appeared in May 1839 as Volume III of the Narrative, under the title Journal and Remarks (Freeman 10). The second issue was published in August, printed from the same sheets but with variant preliminaries (Freeman 11). It "is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed" of Darwin's works (Freeman, p. 31). Volume I of the Narrative contains King's account of the expedition on the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830, surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Volume II (its appendix bound separately as issued), FitzRoy describes the narrative of the Beagle's second voyage between 1831 and 1836, to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia.

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