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On August 7, 1832, in Montevideo, Charles Darwin is packing heat. He’s getting grizzled, turning into a rough and tumble explorer. Two weeks earlier he writes: “our beards are all sprouting.— my face at presents looks of about the same tint as a half washed chimney sweeper.— With my pistols in my belt & geological […]
Read MoreMan oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend! Charles had taken a liking to Fanny Owen through his Cambridge years, but as he departed on the Beagle voyage, well… She dumped him. Apparently he cared more about his beetle collection than about her. She wished she had given him a pin cushion for his instruments […]
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