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  • : In this fascinating new book, award-winning author Ruth Ashby shares the story of Darwin's famous journey aboard the British navy ship, the Beagle, which led to the development of his theories of evolution and natural selection. Ashby's lively account follows the naturalists exciting trip around the world through seasickness, a life-threatening illness, and even an earthquakes he explores South America, the Cape Verde Islands, Tahiti, and the Galapagos Islands. During his travels, Darwin meets indigenous peoples and carefully collects and catalogs plants, fossils, birds, mammals, and insects. Darwin's observations of the distribution and diversity of plant and animal life ultimately leads to the development of his theories on evolution and the publication of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES in 1859. Readers will be inspired by Darwin's transformation from talented but mediocre schoolboy into a remarkable scientist as they read about the revolutionary voyage that forever changed the world of biology.
  • Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle by Ruth Ashby
  • Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle by Ruth Ashby
  • Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle by Ruth Ashby

    • Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle by Ruth Ashby

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    Author:
    Ruth Ashby
    Binding:
    Hardcover
    Language:
    English
    Book Type:
    Nonfiction
    Grade Content:
    7
    Guided Reading Level:
    W
    Lexile:
    1020
    Accelerated Reading Level:
    7.5
    Subject:
    Science
    Copyright:
    2009

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    : In this fascinating new book, award-winning author Ruth Ashby shares the story of Darwin's famous journey aboard the British navy ship, the Beagle, which led to the development of his theories of evolution and natural selection. Ashby's lively account follows the naturalists exciting trip around the world through seasickness, a life-threatening illness, and even an earthquakes he explores South America, the Cape Verde Islands, Tahiti, and the Galapagos Islands. During his travels, Darwin meets indigenous peoples and carefully collects and catalogs plants, fossils, birds, mammals, and insects. Darwin's observations of the distribution and diversity of plant and animal life ultimately leads to the development of his theories on evolution and the publication of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES in 1859. Readers will be inspired by Darwin's transformation from talented but mediocre schoolboy into a remarkable scientist as they read about the revolutionary voyage that forever changed the world of biology.

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    Author Ruth Ashby
    Binding Hardcover
    Language English
    Book Type Nonfiction
    Grade Content 7
    Guided Reading Level W
    Lexile 1020
    Accelerated Reading Level 7.5
    Subject Science
    Copyright 2009

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