The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin · 1839

Darwin's journal of the five-year survey voyage that took him to the Galápagos and shaped his theory. A classic of scientific travel.

Books mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle (15)

• Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell: “[13] See the excellent remarks on this subject by Mr. Lyell, in his Principles of Geology.”
• A Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wager by John Bulkeley and John Cummins: “[13] Bulkeley's and Cummin's Faithful Narrative of the Loss of the Wager. The earthquake happened August 25, 1741.”
• Polynesian Researches by William Ellis: “My notions were drawn from Ellis's "Polynesian Researches"--an admirable and most interesting work, but naturally looking at everything under a favourable point of view, from Beechey's Voyage; and from that of Kotzebue, which is strongly adverse to the whole missionary system.”
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Alexander von Humboldt: “mine were taken from the vivid descriptions in the Personal Narrative of Humboldt, which far exceed in merit anything else which I have read.”
• Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles by Georges Cuvier: “[20] Cuvier (Ossemens Fossiles, tom. i. p. 151), from Billing's Voyage.”
• A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands by John Williams: “The Rev. J. Williams, in his interesting work, [2] says, that the first intercourse between natives and Europeans, "is invariably attended with the introduction of fever, dysentery, or some other disease”
• An Account of the Abipones by Martin Dobrizhoffer: “Dobrizhoffer [17] long ago was aware of there being two kinds of ostriches, he says, "You must know, moreover, that Emus differ in size and habits”
• An Account of the Arctic Regions by William Scoresby: “[1] Scoresby's Arctic Regions, vol. i. p. 122.”
• Voyages dans l'Amerique meridionale by Felix de Azara: “[8] Azara's Voyages, vol. i. p. 373.”
• A New Voyage Round the World by Otto von Kotzebue: “from that of Kotzebue, which is strongly adverse to the whole missionary system.”
• A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr: “[20] Kerr's Collection of Voyages, vol. viii. p. 119.”
• Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar by William FitzWilliam Owen: “[8] In Captain Owen's Surveying Voyage (vol. ii. p. 274) there is a curious account of the effects of a drought on the elephants, at Benguela”
• Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip Parker King: “Voyage of the Astrolabe and of the Coquille; Captain King's Survey of Australia, etc.”
• Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain by Alexander von Humboldt: “Humboldt (Polit. Essay on King of New Spain, vol. iv.) says, that the great epidemics of Panama and Callao are "marked" by the arrival of ships from Chile”
• Fragments de geologie et de climatologie asiatiques by Alexander von Humboldt: “[10] See Humboldt, Fragments Asiatiques, p. 386: Barton's Geography of Plants: and Malte Brun.”

Books that mention The Voyage of the Beagle (3)

• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “Adams was content to read Darwin, especially his "Origin of Species" and his "Voyage of the Beagle."”
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: “he does have Darwin, he says, and reads to her from The Voyage of the Beagle...”
• Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “...you could have read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Voyage of the Beagle...”