- 1978 edition. 176 pages
- Published by Bison Books Ltd, London.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange boards. Approx A4 size - a little wider.
- Very good condition. Very minor shelf wear. Minor fading at spine.
Foreword by Roger Lewin. Special photography by Sally Anne Thompson. 189 colour plates. The Galapagos Archipelago.
Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle in 1831 carried him around the world. When Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands several hundred miles west of Peru in the Pacific, he discovered a world in which time had stopped. Iguana and lizards resembling dinosaurs extinct for millennia, giant tortoises, great birds seen nowhere else in the world and many other extraordinary creatures were seen by Darwin and subsequent visitors to the islands.
Darwin used his discoveries on these islands as the basis for his classic work Origin of Species which, when published in 1859, revolutionized man's thinking about his antecedents in the animal world.
The Galapagos Islands have remained very much as isolated and unspoiled as when Darwin first saw them over a century and a half ago. Darwin's Forgotten World has an extraordinary collection of photographs together with Darwin's original comments about what he saw in the islands.
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