The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
south america
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.
It makes one's blood boil
Slavery still occurring in Brazil 173 years after Darwin left.
Postcard from the ends of the Earth
From Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, in fact.
05-Aug-1832: Darwin under fire (get used to it, Charles!)
On 5th August 1832, in what he described as ‘an eventful day’, Charles Darwin and his HMS Beagle colleagues helped put down an armed insurrection in Argentina.