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"This reversed order of things": Re-Orientation aboard HMS Beagle
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006
- pp. 462-480
- 10.1353/bio.2006.0058
- Article
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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.