Any good biographer or historian knows it's necessary to travel to the subject's historical landscape, at the very least to experience the same spatial ground. Here's a little two-pager regarding Darwin's old stomping grounds. The picture is of Darwin's study. Enjoy.
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Nice piece. Anything similar about Gibbon? I think he has a very interesting bio.
I haven't seen anything on Gibbon in the Atlantic yet. Certainly worthy of at least a half-dozen pieces like this.
From the accounts of the voyage of the HMS Beagele, Darwin was anything but dreary in his younger days.
Of course, his dreary older days got him that fab study. So the strategy for a nifty place to ponder is to be sour as hell? Yes can do!
AA, you should have a real bang-up study by now if that holds true, yes?
Well...in my case it's more like "bung up".
But, I keep swilling vinegar, it'll eventually get to a bang.
HMS Beagele? Was that a deli ship? Maybe they fish for lox and cream cheese.
The Beagele was set up by the philanthropist, Isaac Fitz, named afer his favorite aunt from schetl days, for the dual purpose of natural exploration and the establishment of gefilte fish franchises on the Pacific coast. The gefilte franchise operation, however, for reasons unfathomable, failed to catch on anywhere from Tierra del Fuego all the way to Monterrey. To avoid bankruptcy, then, Isaac was forced to sell his share in the enterprise to Lord Beagle, who renamed the ship in his own honor, which sale ensured the survival of the Fitzest.
Darwin carefully observed the evolution of this events, and the rest is history....just ask MFT.
Gorgeous. Your erudition is a protruding.
Fitz-Roy and Darwin got into a bit of a spat during that voyage on the Beagle (I'd be surprised if it was only one). It was over the question of slavery, Darwin viewing it as an immoral institution. Fitz-Roy wouldn't talk to Darwin for something like three days.
Although that might have had something to do with Darwin tasting gefilte fish for the first, and last, time.
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