In The Wake Of The "Beagle": Science In The Southern Oceans From The Age Of Darwin

Author: Australian National Maritime Museum

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  • : 49.95 AUD
  • : 9781921410949
  • : NewSouth Publishing
  • : NewSouth Publishing
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  • : 0.749
  • : April 2009
  • : Australia
  • : 49.95
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  • : Australian National Maritime Museum
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 910
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  • : 192
  • : Life sciences: general issues; Geographical discovery & exploration; Maritime history
  • : Illustrations, map, ports., facsims.
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Barcode 9781921410949
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Description

This book shows the importance of the southern oceans to Darwin's theories. Publication coincides with the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of publication of "On the Origin of Species". This highly illustrated and beautifully designed full-colour book will examine Darwin (and his contemporaries) from a very modern perspective, linking their voyages with today's scientific developments and debates about climate change, ecology and creationism. Strange as it may seem, the long wake of the tiny HMS Beagle stretches from the nineteenth century into the future of our globe. Charles Darwin spent only three months in Australia, but Australasia and the Pacific contributed to his evolutionary thinking in a variety of ways. One hundred and fifty years after the publication of "On the Origin of Species" the internationally acclaimed authors of "In the Wake of the Beagle" provide new insights into the world of collecting, surveying and cross-cultural exchange in the antipodes in the age of Darwin. They explore the groundbreaking work of Darwin and his contemporaries Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace, examine the complex trading relationships of the region's daring voyagers, and take a very modern look at today's cutting-edge scientific research, at a time when global warming has raised the stakes to an unprecedented level.