Have you ever read a blog post about someone’s vacation to a unique destination? Were there any mentions of local food or weather or animals? Believe it or not, that travel blog actually contained geographic data.
Darwin’s notes were recorded in a volume simply called Journal and Remarks, now commonly referred to as The Voyage of the Beagle. Darwin’s biogeographic observations—in large part recorded in The Voyage of the Beagle—ultimately led him to propose the theory of evolution by natural selection, which he explored more fully in his work On the Origin of Species, published in 1859.
A travel narrative is an account of a journey that provides spatial information. Travel narratives usually include location, transportation, weather, and housing. Some travel narratives are designed to entertain, while others are designed to enable informed decision-making about an area.
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