Our fifth newsletter marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin setting sail aboard HMS Beagle.
Newsletter No. 5: Discovery and adventure
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Fossils’ by Adrian Lister
Discoveries that shaped evolution.
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin: Vol.1: Voyaging’ by Janet Browne
Part 1 of an entertaining two-part biography of Charles Darwin.
13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin’s closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
The great Darwin fossil hunt
In which a friend beyond measure arranges a behind-the-scenes visit to the Natural History Museum to see fossils collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage.