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Biography

Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006

E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962

DOI: 10.1353/bio.2006.0058

Harley, Alexis.
"This reversed order of things": Re-Orientation aboard HMS Beagle
Biography - Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006, pp. 462-480

University of Hawai'i Press

This essay explores how Darwin's Beagle Diary navigates between geographical and intellectual travel in logging a literal voyage of discovery; it focuses on the diary's allegorical use of geography in a narrative of religious disorientation, and on Darwin's descriptions of the disorienting effects of encountering different cultures and environments.


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