So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired ...

Charles Darwin, famed for his theory of evolution, profoundly influenced modern biology. Notably, Darwin shared a birthdate ...

August 1835 (Voyage of the Beagle) (Darwin's Struggle with Faith) Docked off Lima, Peru, Darwin catches up on letters home. His cousin and close friend William Darwin Fox writes about the bliss of ...

This was fundamental to Darwin’s ability to preserve the specimens he collected during his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle. Though we only have scant details on Edmonstone’s life, what we know reveals ...

One of his most frequent contacts was Joseph Dalton Hooker, a botanist who helped identify many of the plant specimens collected during Darwin’s HMS Beagle journey, including his famed stop at the ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best known and most neatly mythologized episodes in the history of science.

By the time he was serendipitously invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist, primed for significant discoveries.

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

Darwin’s tutor at Cambridge recommended him as a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years, Darwin visited ...

In September 1835, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles from Ecuador. Darwin made detailed notes and collected lots of animals, plants, insects and reptiles. He noted that the ...

Late August 1831 (Voyage of the Beagle) Only days after his crushing disappointment, Darwin gets the letter of his lifetime. His Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, has recommended him to a ...