1978 hardcover with dust jacket and 196 pages in good secondhand condition.

In July 1977 a replica of HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin made his historic voyage in 1831, set out from the Cornish port of Charlestown.
The new Beagle was chartered by the BBC for the filming of The Voyage of Charles Darwin and her mission was none less than to re-enact Darwin's voyage in tropical Brazil, Tierra del Fuego and the Galapagos Islands, some of the most remote and spectacular landscapes of the world.
The author of this book, whose previous experience of ships had been confined to a rowing boat of Regent's Park lake, has written a saga - often hilariously funny - of adventure and misadventure.