Bibliography

 

The original account of the first two voyages of the Beagle is:
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the Years 1826 and 1836 Describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America and Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe.
Vol I.     Proceedings of the First Expedition 1826 - 30 under the command of Captain P. Parker King.
Vol II.    Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831 - 36 under the command of Captain FitzRoy.
Vol III.  Journal and Remarks 1832 - 36 by Charles Darwin Esq. MA.

Published by Henry Colburn, Gt Marlborough Street,  1839.

The original account of the third voyage of the Beagle is:
Discoveries in Australia: with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of HMS Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43.
J. Lort Stokes
Published by T&W Boone,  1846.

 

The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle under the Command of Captain Robert FitzRoy RN during the years 1832 - 1836.
Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin Esq., naturalist to the expedition.
Vol 1.  Fossil Mammalia
Vol 2.  Mammalia
Vol 3.  Birds
Vol 4.  Fish & Reptiles
Published by Elder & Co,  1840.          Facimile edition 1994 by C.I.L. Ltd

On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties: and on the perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection.
Charles Darwin Esq FRS, FLS, & FGS and Alfred Wallace Esq
Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell, FRS, FLS, and JD Hooker Esq, MDVPRS, FLS, etc., Read 1 July 1858 Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Zoology Vol III, p45,  1859.

On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
John Murray,  1859.

The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
Penguin Books, 1980.

A Narrative of the Voyage of the Beagle
Robert FitzRoy, ed. David Stanbury
The Folio Society,  1977.

The Beagle Record: Selections from the original pictorial records and with accounts of the voyage of HMS Beagle
ed. Richard Darwin Keynes
Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Darwin
Janet Brown
Jonathan Cape, Vol I, 1995, Vol II  in preparation.

FitzRoy of the Beagle
HEL Mellersh
Rupert Hart-Davis,  1968.

HMS Beagle
Keith Thomson
WW Norton & Co,  1995.

Darwin and the Beagle
Alan Moorehead
Penguin Books,  1969.

Darwin's Moon. A Biography of Alfred Russell Wallace
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Blackie,   1966.

The Malay Archipelago
A.R. Wallace
Macmillan & Co,  1869.

Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World
Robert McCormick
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884.

Blondie: a biography of Lt-Col HG Hasler
Euwan Southby-Tailyour
Lee Cooper,  1998

Comfort in the Cruising Yacht
Ian Nicholson
Nautical Books,  1986.

 

 

 

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