Writing tagged: ‘beagle voyage’
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 30 • 1882’
The end of a magnificent era.
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Newsletter No. 16: ‘Pilgrimages and plans’
A bumper Christmas edition of Darwin-related goodies.
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Newsletter No. 10: ‘Attending a very little to species’
In which Darwin gets to work on species, and I disappear down a research rabbit-hole. With loads of links to recent Darwin- and evolution-related stories.
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Discovery and adventure’
Marking the anniversary of Charles Darwin setting sail aboard HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Fossils’ by Adrian Lister
Discoveries that shaped evolution.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin: Vol.1: Voyaging’ by Janet Browne
Part 1 of an entertaining two-part biography of Charles Darwin.
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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.
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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.
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20-Feb-1835: Darwin witnesses an earthquake
On 20th February 1835, while taking a rest in a wood in Valvidia, Southern Chile, Charles Darwin experienced a major earthquake.
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11-Jul-1836: Darwin visits Napoleon
Towards the end of her second voyage, HMS Beagle called at the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. Darwin took the opportunity to visit the grave of St Helena’s most famous former occupant/prisoner, Napoleon Bonaparte.
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12-Feb-1834: Darwin’s 25th birthday, Patagonia
How Charles Darwin spent his 25th birthday.
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25-Dec-1833: The HMS Beagle Olympics
On Christmas Day 1833, the crew of HMS Beagle held their own ’Olympic Games’ at Port Desire in Patagonia.