Os primeiros revisores

Charles Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he embarked upon the historic South American expedition that produced The Voyage of the Beagle. Centuries later, another twenty-something adventurer, Eric Simons, retraces Darwin’s steps in the adventure-travel-biography-history Darwin Slept Here (The Overlook Press / February 12, 2008 / $24.00 / ISBN: 978-1-59020-220-3), the first Darwin biography to analyze, via first-person experience, the histories, legends, and people that fascinated the revolutionary naturalist nearly two hundred years before. Darwin Slept Here is a travelogue in which Simons, fleeing a soul-sucking post-college job, endeavors to experience the places, people and discoveries mapped out by Darwin’s account. From the mud wrestling clubs of Buenos Aires to the “demon cacti” of the Chilean desert, Simons treks to as many of the locations visited by Darwin as he can find during his quest to see South America through Darwin’s eyes and to mine South Americans’ knowledge of Darwin. With February 12th, 2009 marking the double anniversary of both Darwin’s birth as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Darwin Slept Here comes just in time to celebrate and revive one of the most important scientific discoverers of all time. With each chapter headed by the corresponding Beagle Diary entry from Darwin’s trip and in Darwin’s words, Eric Simons’s captivating travelogue revisits the places and recaptures the exhilaration of Darwin’s adventures. It is an innovative look at Darwin’s discoveries and a fresh-eyed journey into South America by an exciting new writer.