Table of Contents
Maps x
The Wedgwood and Darwin Family Tree xii
Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight xv
Part I "We Philosophers Do Not Bargain for this Kind of Work" August 1833 1
1 Looking for the General 3
2 "The Perfect Gaucho" 10
Part II Shropshire Lad, 1809-1831 15
3 "Gas" 17
4 Edinburgh 25
5 Cambridge 34
6 "You Are the Very Man They Are in Search For" 44
7 Captain FitzRoy 52
8 HMS Beagle 63
9 Devonport 68
Part III Odysseus Unbound, 1832 75
10 Marine Life 77
11 In Humboldtian Climes 85
12 Tropic of Slavery 96
13 Rio 102
14 A Night at the Venda da Matto 112
15 Botafogo Idyll 117
16 "Laughable Revolutions" 123
Part IV Austral Climes, 1832-1833 131
17 "No Painter Ever Imagined So Wild a Set of Expressions" 133
18 Tierra del Fuego 143
19 Navarino Island 156
20 El Dorado Lost 167
21 In Patagonia 176
22 Cerro Tres Picos 186
23 "I thank Providence I am here with an Entire Throat" 188
24 Tierra del Fuego Redux 193
25 Rio Santa Cruz Ascent 207
Part V Round the Horn, 1834-1836 213
26 The Heights of Cerro La Campana 215
27 "Strange Proceedings Aboard the Beagle" 223
28 "The Greatest Phenomena to which This World is Subject" 228
29 Adventures on the Andes' Atlantic Coast 235
30 Galápagos 246
31 West of the One-Hundred-Eightieth Meridian 260
32 Antipodes 269
33 "Round the World, Like a Flying Dutchman" 276
Part VI Great Britain, 1836-1882 293
34 Odysseus Returns 295
35 "Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work" 308
36 "The Highest & Most Interesting Problem for the Naturalist" 315
Epilogue: Advice for Travelers 321
Acknowledgments 323
Image credits 329
A Note on Sources and Style 331
Bibliography 333
Endnotes 341
Index 355