Hms 'Beagle : The Story of Darwin's Ship

In pleasing contrast to the majority of mainstream depictions of Darwin's activities on the Beagle trip, Keith Stewart Thomson's travelogue contains very few historical errors. At least when it comes to the actual whereabouts of Darwin in South America. Thomson's presentation of Darwin's ideas on organic evolution is a bit more foggy, but that matters little as the main focus of the book is to retrace Darwin's anchorages in South America.The read is easy, nicely contrasting today's luxury of modern oceangoing sailboats and Darwin's cramped accomodations in the tiny HMS Beagle over 150 years earlier.