
The Voyage of the Beagle


Darwin would confide that Humboldt’s descriptions of the tropics, read over and over again during his youth, had inspired his entire career. Darwin also liked Humboldt’s account of an earthquake at Caracas enough to have lifted some of it, pretty much intact, for his Voyage of the Beagle.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
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