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Where Australia collides with Asia, the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin of On the origin of species, Ian Burnet

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Where Australia collides with Asia

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Ian Burnet

the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin of On the origin of species

This book follows the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace through the voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago - with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna - and begins its journey north towards the equator. The voyage of Joseph Banks on the Endeavour, who with Daniel Solander became the first trained naturalists to describe the unique flora and fauna of Continent Australia that had evolved during its 30 million years of isolation. The voyage of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, who after his observations in South America and the Galapagos Islands, sat on the banks of the Coxs River in New South Wales and tried to rationalise his belief in the idea of biblical creation and understand the origin of species

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