What Darwin Saw

I finished this book on 6/19/09.

What Darwin Saw is a book about Darwin and the journey he took on a ship called The Beagle. The book isn't too much of a straight forward reading book, but it is still interesting to read in any order. It was organized by the time this happened and followed Darwin's journey from place to place. He went to places like areas in South America, a few stops in Africa, and a bit in Australia. And of course, the Galapagos, which you might already know about. He figured out that things evolve differently in different places when he was in the Galapagos and one of the points of this is that the Galapagos is so far off from the mainland of South America that there are species that you can only find there and they differ from one island to the next, but they are still similar. There were three fonts in the book. One was like a narrator, one was some stuff that Darwin wrote down himself in his journals, and last one was (there were only a few of these) an orange type that showed what other people wrote or said.