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A review by bimblinghill
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
5.0
I think of this as akin to a 'making of' documentary companion to his seminal Origin of Species.
It's great. Darwin is a magnificent narrator, recording with colour and vibrancy environments and cultures that are now gone or irrevocably changed.
There are a few comments that raise an eyebrow on a modern reader, but as a product of his time Darwin had an extraordinarily humane and progressive appreciation of what was happening in the world as the colonial powers swept over it. On occasions he really gets it, on others he doesn't.
It's great. Darwin is a magnificent narrator, recording with colour and vibrancy environments and cultures that are now gone or irrevocably changed.
There are a few comments that raise an eyebrow on a modern reader, but as a product of his time Darwin had an extraordinarily humane and progressive appreciation of what was happening in the world as the colonial powers swept over it. On occasions he really gets it, on others he doesn't.