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, a very well-preserved copy in the original cloth, of this outstanding account of natural history exploration. It includes the first issue of Darwin's first published book, the Journal and Remarks (now popularly known under its later title The Voyage of the Beagle), which describes the fieldwork that ultimately led to the publication of Origin of Species (1859).These records of the voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle are "famous as the genesis of [Darwin's] theory of evolutionary biology" (Hill). As Freeman notes, of Darwin's books the Journal and Remarks "is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed" (p. 31). Darwin himself would state that "the voyage of the 'Beagle' has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career... I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved" (Life and Letters I, p. 61).Volume I contains Phillip Parker 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 (and its appendix bound separately as issued), Captain FitzRoy describes the narrative of the Beagle's second voyage between 1831 and 1836, to South Ame

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