Fodors Germany 2009 or The Voyage of the Beagle

Fodor's Germany 2009

Author: Fodors Travel Publications Inc Staff

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Germany!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Germany provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Germany features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Germany.

•Experience Germany like a local! Fodor’s Germany includes choices for every traveler, from hiking in the Bavarian Alps to museum-hopping in Dresden and clubbing in Berlin, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

Book review: Heart of a Woman or Miladys Art Science of Nail Technology

The Voyage of the Beagle (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Author: Charles Darwin

"I hate every wave of the ocean," the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle. It was this world-wide journey, however, that launched the scientist's career.

The Voyage of the Beagle is Darwin's fascinating account of his trip - of his biological and geological observations and collection activities, of his speculations about the causes and theories behind scientific phenomena, of his interactions with various native peoples, of his beautiful descriptions of the lands he visited, and of his amazing discoveries in the Galapagos archipelago. Although scientific in nature, the literary quality rivals those of John Muir and Henry Thoreau.

About the Author:
Charles Darwin is the author of one of the most controversial and influential works in Western thought, The Origin of the Species (1859). At age twenty-two, Darwin, who had dropped out of medical school in Edinburgh, became the gentleman companion (and only secondarily, naturalist) to the moody, irascible Captain Robert FitzRoy. Although his father had wanted him to become a pastor, Darwin's journey on the H.M.S. Beagle led to him instead becoming the forerunner of evolutionary theory.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	xv
	Preface
Chapter 1	St. Jago--Cape de Verd Islands	1
Chapter 2	Rio de Janeiro	16
Chapter 3	Maldonado	34
Chapter 4	Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca	55
Chapter 5	Bahia Blanca	71
Chapter 6	Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres	93
Chapter 7	Buenos Ayres and St. Fe	108
Chapter 8	Banda Oriental and Patagonia	125
Chapter 9	Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands	156
Chapter 10	Tierra Del Fuego	180
Chapter 11	Strait of Magellan--Climate of the Southern Coasts	204
Chapter 12	Central Chile	224
Chapter 13	Chiloe and Chonos Islands	242
Chapter 14	Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake	259
Chapter 15	Passage of the Cordillera	279
Chapter 16	Northern Chile and Peru	300
Chapter 17	Galapagos Archipelago	331
Chapter 18	Tahiti and New Zealand	358
Chapter 19	Australia	383
Chapter 20	Keeling Island:--Coral Formations	402
Chapter 21	Mauritius to England	429