This is the record of Darwin's experiences during the five years he sailed around the world as a naturalist on H.M.S. Beagle. It is an adventure story in which the greatest adventure of all is a young man's search for an understanding of the origin and development of all living things on earth.

On the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's epoch-making The Origin of Species, Millicent E. Selsam, brilliant author of See Through The Jungle and See Through The Forest, introduces young readers to this earlier book by Darwin.

Mrs. Selsam has abridged Darwin's long text and written a perceptive and illuminating introduction to each of the twenty-one chapters.

There can be no higher praise for Anthony Ravielli's drawings than to say that they are the perfect complement to the text.

From the dust jacket