Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
by Simons, Eric
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One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the world," at the end of the long trip designed to put as much distance as possible between himself and a frustrating post-college job, Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had just hiked the mountains overlooking beagle Channel, and he found himself engrossed in Darwin's account.
Like Simons, Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he traveled to the continent, having joined a five-year expedition to survey and map the coastline of South America. The adventure tales Darwin told in the 1830s weren't that different from those being told in present-day hostel dorm rooms. Struck by the similarity, Simons found himself compelled to journey further into South America—to explore the histories, legends, and people that had fascinated Darwin himself two centuries before.
150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, Darwin Slept Here journeys in in the footsteps of one of the fathers of modern science. In this fresh-eyed and innovative work of history and travel, Eric Simons reclaims the past of South America and brings Charles Darwin into the future.
Info
ISBN: 9781590202203
Published Date: January 22, 2009
Publisher: Overlook Press
Language: English
Page Count: 258
Size: 8.10" l x 5.60" w x 1.10" h
Category
Travel
Subject
Essays & Travelogues