John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831 6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The expedition set off in 1837 and Stokes did not return to England until 1843 after 18 years of service on the Beagle when he began work on this two-volume account of the voyage, which was published in 1846. This work provides a detailed narrative of the...
John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 183...
John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831 6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The expedition set off in 1837 and Stokes did not return to England until 1843 after 18 years of service on the Beagle when he began work on this two-volume account of the voyage, which was published in 1846. This work provides a detailed narrative of the...
John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 183...
