Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America

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Harry N. Abrams, Jan 22, 2009 - Travel - 258 pages
One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the world," writer 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. Simons followed Darwin further into South America--to stand where Darwin had stood and to explore the histories, legends and people that had fascinated him two centuries before. Simons trekked to as many of the locations Darwin wrote about as he could find to see if he could see these places through Darwin's eyes, and to learn what South Americans know about Darwin.

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INTRODUCTION
11
A Chaos of Delights
27
PORT DESIRE
43
Copyright

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Eric Simons is a contributor to NPR's Radiolab and lives in San Francisco.

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