The Adventures Of Charles Darwin

Author : Jennifer Thermes
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613129715

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Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure by Jennifer Thermes Pdf

In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his first voyage. Though he was a scientist by profession, he was an explorer at heart. While journeying around South America for the first time aboard a ninety-foot-long ship named the Beagle, Charles collected insets, dug up bones, galloped with gauchos, encountered volcanoes and earthquakes, and even ate armadillo for breakfast! The discoveries he made during this adventure would later inspire ideas that changed how we see the world. Complete with mesmerizing map work that charts Darwin's thrilling five-year voyage, as well as "Fun Facts" and more, Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure captures the beauty and mystery of nature with wide-eyed wonder.

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152061940

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The True Adventures of Charley Darwin by Carolyn Meyer Pdf

Just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," Meyer tells the story of his restless childhood, unrequited teenage love, and a passion for studying nature that was so great, Darwin would sacrifice everything to pursue it.

Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Scientific expeditions
ISBN : OCLC:1154170548

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The Adventures of Charles Darwin by Peter Ward Pdf

Author : Kathryn Lasky,Matthew Trueman
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076361436X

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One Beetle Too Many by Kathryn Lasky,Matthew Trueman Pdf

Clear, engaging narration describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986-10-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521310741

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The Adventures of Charles Darwin by Peter Ward Pdf

"A story of the Beagle voyage." George Carter, cabin boy on H.M.S. Beagle, spends five years sailing the seas and sharing adventures with Charles Darwin.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781528789752

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The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin Pdf

First published in 1839, “The Voyage of the Beagle” is the book written by Charles Darwin that chronicles his experience of the famous survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Part travel memoir, part scientific field journal, it covers such topics as biology, anthropology, and geology, demonstrating Darwin's changing views and ideas while he was developing his theory of evolution. A book highly recommended for those with an interest in evolution and is not to be missed by collectors of important historical literature. Contents include: “St. Jago—Cape De Verd Islands”, “Rio De Janeiro”, “Maldonado”, “Rio Negro To Bahia Blanca”, “Bahia Blanca”, “Bahia Blanca To Buenos Ayres”, “Banda Oriental And Patagonia”, etc. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was an English geologist, naturalist, and biologist most famous for his contributions to the science of evolution and his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547940625

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Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer Pdf

A “gripping historical drama” that tells the story of young Elizabeth Tudor’s journey to the throne—and her fierce rivalry with her half sister (School Library Journal). Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure? Elizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry VIII. Her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London. And her only love interest betrays her in his own quest for the throne… Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this novel in the exciting Young Royals series explores the relationship between two sisters who became mortal enemies. New York Times-bestselling author Carolyn Meyer has written an intriguing historical tale that reveals the deep-seated rivalry between a determined girl who became Elizabeth I, one of England's most powerful monarchs—and the sister who tried everything to stop her.

Author : Richard Keynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199774678

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Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians by Richard Keynes Pdf

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern full-length account of Darwin's epoch-making expedition. This was the great adventure of Charles Darwin's life. Indeed, it would have been a great adventure for anyone--tracking condor in Chile, surviving the great earthquake of 1835, riding across country on horseback in the company of gauchos, watching whales leaping skyward off Tierra del Fuego, hunting ostriches with a bolo, discovering prehistoric fossils and previously unknown species, and meeting primitive peoples such as the Fuegians. Keynes captures many of the natural wonders that Darwin witnessed, including an incredible swarm of butterflies a mile wide and ten miles long. Keynes also illuminates Darwin's scientific work--his important findings in geology and biology--and traces the slow revolution in Darwin's thought about species and how they might evolve. Numerous illustrations--mostly by artists who traveled with Darwin on the Beagle--grace the pages, including finely rendered drawings of many points of interest discussed in the book. There has probably been no greater or more important scientific expedition than Darwin's voyage on the Beagle. Packed with colorful details of life aboard ship and in the wild, here is a fascinating portrait of Charles Darwin and of 19th century science.

Author : Eric Simons
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781590205426

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Darwin Slept Here by Eric Simons Pdf

This entertaining combination of history, biography, and travel adventure is “a bracingly fresh portrait [of] Darwin . . . Nothing less than exhilarating” (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma). One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had just hiked the mountains overlooking Beagle Channel, and found himself engrossed in Darwin’s surprisingly relatable account. Like Simons, Darwin had been in his mid-twenties when he traveled to South America in search of adventure. Inspired, Simons went further into South America, exploring the histories, legends, and people that had fascinated Darwin himself two centuries before. In Darwin Slept Here, Simons journeys in the footsteps of one of the fathers of modern science, introducing readers to “a refreshingly different Darwin: a twenty-something traveler fond of hurling iguanas into the sea and charging up any tall peak he could find” (Outside Magazine). “Hard to put Simons’ book down—lighthearted adventures that keep a reader wanting more.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Deborah Hopkinson,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101639931

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Who Was Charles Darwin? by Deborah Hopkinson,Who HQ Pdf

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would change people's understanding of the natural world. About 100 illustrations and a clear, exciting text will make Darwin and his theory of evolution an exciting discovery for every young reader.

Author : Charles Sheffield
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : 074343613X

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The Amazing Dr. Darwin by Charles Sheffield Pdf

In 18th century Europe, Dr. Erasmus Darwin--Charles Darwin's grandfather--is called upon to heal a man dying of an ailment that seems impossible. Darwin has no idea that he will begin a quest that will take him to Scotland for a stunning encounter with the famous inhabitant of a Scottish loch.

Author : Eugene Byrne
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781588343529

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Darwin by Eugene Byrne Pdf

Darwin: A Graphic Biography is an inspiring expedition into the physical and intellectual adventures of Charles Darwin. Presenting Darwin's life in a smart and entertaining graphic novel, Darwin: A Graphic Biography attempts to not only educate the reader about Darwin but also the scientific world of the 1800s. The graphic medium is ideal for recreating a very specific time frame, succeeding in placing the reader right next to a young Darwin on a "beetling" expedition. With specimens in both hands, and anxious to get another, Darwin ends up stuffing the third beetle into his mouth. Darwin's life presented in this form is an inspirational tale for kids of all ages. They'll be sure to identify with a curious young Darwin finding his way on youthful adventures in the fields near his house. The ups, downs, and near-misses of Darwin's youth are portrayed honestly and without foreshadowing of his later fame. This is a key point for younger readers: that Darwin wasn't somehow predestined to greatness. He was curious, patient, and meticulous. He persevered--a great lesson about what science is all about.

Author : Rob Wesson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681773773

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Darwin's First Theory by Rob Wesson Pdf

Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist—on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna.Tracing Darwin’s footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson sets out on a trek across the Andes, repeating the nautical surveys made by the Beagle’s crew, hunting for fossils in Uruguay and Argentina, and explores traces of long vanished glaciers in Scotland and Wales. By following Darwin’s path literally and intellectually, Rob experiences the landscape that absorbed Darwin, followed his reasoning about what he saw, and immerses himself in the same questions about the earth. Upon Darwin’s return from the five-year journey, he conceived his theory of tectonics—his first theory. These concepts and attitudes—the vastness of time; the enormous cumulative impact of almost imperceptibly slow change; change as a constant feature of the environment—underlie his subsequent discoveries in evolution. And this peculiar way of thinking remains vitally important today as we enter the Anthropocene.

Author : Jay S Hosler
Publisher : Active Synapse
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0967725518

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Sandwalk Adventures by Jay S Hosler Pdf

The Sandwalk Adventures is the tale of follicle mites living in the left eyebrow of Charles Darwin himself. The mites believe Darwin is a god, one of their myths handed down from generation to generation, and he has to set them straight about that and other mite fables. A humorous series of illustrated lessons in natural selection and evolution ensues. Recommended for readers with an interest in real science and a working funny bone. 159 pages of evolution, humor, and science suitable for high schoolers and other intelligent readers

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Salariya Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Beagle Expedition
ISBN : 1904642926

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Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin by Fiona Macdonald Pdf

Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin takes readers around the world on a voyage of discovery with the famous scientist, from his early meeting with Captain Fitzroy to his modest return nearly five years later. The book also looks at seafaring in the early 19th-century, including navigation equipment, the captain and crew, and life on board ship. We explore in depth the discoveries which Darwin made on the voyage, the specimens he gathered and the conclusions be came to. The final part of the book deals with his famous writings and the contemporary reaction to the idea of evolution. The book features cutaway diagrams of the ship, illustrations of the journey, maps, contemporary paintings, and photographs from Darwin's published works. Informative captions, a complete glossary, time lines and an index make this title an ideal educational text. It is an ideal text for shared and guided reading for Key Stage 2 pupils within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. It helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14, promoting 'positive attitudes to learning', 'knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the world' and 'skills in literacy'.