As Britain celebrates Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, Simon Calder and Ben Ross chart the great naturalist's journey aboard the Beagle – a voyage that took in a natural selection of the ...

By Ben Crair Charles Darwin was 22 ... an island historian who laid out a “Darwin trail,” of sorts, around Praia. Our first stop, though, wasn’t on the map: an unfinished housing subdivision ...

English Heritage Images Charles Darwin lived ... one that FitzRoy probably didn’t get. Darwin’s head was full of barnacles at the time—he was trying to map and understand the entire group ...

Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, one of the most influential and controversial scientific works ever published, first went into print almost 150 years ago. The eminent scientist ...

So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the ...

Discover the story of Charles ... starting with a Darwin-themed Georgian townhouse in Shrewsbury that boasts a relaxing garden and well-appointed rooms. Travel on to a welcoming country house ...

In 1880 Charles Darwin published a book called The Formation ... On the cabin table are artefacts he took on that voyage, such as his microscope, map dividers, specimen boxes, hydrometer and ...

On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing," wrote Charles Darwin ... as the map shows, the course of the Beagle incorporated many of the planet's present travel ...

English Heritage Images Charles Darwin lived ... one that FitzRoy probably didn’t get. Darwin’s head was full of barnacles at the time—he was trying to map and understand the entire group ...