https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/ Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-550827 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:46:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-550827 Gwen, he did write it!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-550826 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:47:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-550826 I did not know Darwin did not write ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’. Thank you for that tidbit. Another book I need to order for my e-reader!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3425 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:21:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3425 Thanks for a nice reminder, will try to follow in re-reading the version that Darwin didn’t get any payment for!One point, “Darwin was first and foremost a geologist” is debatable. While at Edinburgh University in 1827 he joined Robert Grant in collecting and studying marine invertebrates, and presented his discoveries to the Plinian society. At Cambridge University he took up beetle collecting. His interest in entomology introduced him to the professor of botany John Henslow and Darwin became an enthusiastic naturalist, joining the botany course.In 1831 after finishing his exams he planned a trip to Tenerife with Henslow, and then was introduced to Adam Sedgwick and did a term’s course on geology before a fortnight geologising with Sedgwick in Wales. Then, although his collecting of specimens and fossils was very important, his work on the Beagle expedition inspired by Lyell’s book made Darwin’s name as a geologist, and that was the focus of his career when he returned. Though he was also secretly considering transmutation of species….

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3424 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:46:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3424 I’m just reading it now–the Modern Library version you mention. I was a bit curious about what “version” of the book it was, looking for an edition number. Thanks for clearing it up a bit.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3423 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:22:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/02/darwin-and-the-voyage-01-intro/#comment-3423 You and your readers might be interested to know that the good folks at librivox.org are in the process of recording what will be a free, public domain audiobook version of The Voyage.The version they are recording is the one posted at Gutenberg.org, and it’s unclear from that text which edition of the Voyage that is. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/944A majority of the chapters are already recorded and available for download/listening in mp3 format at:http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9175Note that different chapters/sections are read by different volunteers, so you won’t be hearing the same voice throughout.

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