As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle.

Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would change people's understanding of the natural world.

About 100 illustrations and a clear, exciting text will make Darwin and his theory of evolution an exciting discovery for every young reader.


Darwin出生在1809年的英格蘭，小時候並沒有特殊的天才，只是自小有一種喜歡大自然的天性，善於觀察事物。

從小便喜歡各種生物，而且特別喜歡蒐集植物、貝殼和礦石的標本。由於對生物特別好奇，使他放棄了醫學和神學，以無比的毅力和堅持去建構他的理論，「天擇說」、「物競天擇，適者生存」、「物種源始論」提出關於生物進化的問題。書籍出版後，他的學說立即轟動全球，引起一番激烈的爭論。

達爾文的進化學說，在當時可說是一種創見，對後世影響尤為深遠。