Description

Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 256 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with half-tones and decorative map end-papers, First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A Victorian morality tale focusing on the Beagle’s voyage of discovery and three men who sailed in her: a young Darwin; her aristocratic and orthodox Christian captain Robert FitzRoy; and Jemmy Button, an Indian of Terra del Fuego. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.