DARWIN SLEPT HERE: DISCOVERY, ADVENTURE, AND SWIMMING IGUANAS IN CHARLES DARWIN’S SOUTH AMERICA

Book ID/图书代码： 03830508B28077

English Summary/英文概要： One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed “southernmost city in the world," at writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle.Simons found himself engrossed in Darwin’s account. Like Simons, Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he traveled to the continent, having joined a five-year expedition designed to survey and map the coastline of South America, to serve as the expedition’s naturalist. Simons Simons found himself compelled to return to South America and follow Darwin further, not just to stand where Darwin had, but to explore the histories, legends and people that had fascinated Darwin.

Struck by how much Darwin’s enthusiasm, sense of wonder and adventure, even occasional boredom sounded like the attitudes of Simons’ own 20-something traveling companions, Simons visited as many of the locations Darwin wrote about as he could, to see if he could see these places through Darwin’s eyes, to access Darwin the young adventurer in the most immediate way possible, to see how much the places Darwin explored might have changed – or not – since Darwin’s journey (perhaps to learn from Darwin what we might be losing), to see what South Americans knew about Darwin, and so to ‘peer into the cultural identity of the continents most enduring places.’

Simons is at work developing a tv documentary based on the book with Jim Coan of Coan Productions who produced the documentary “Walking the Bible” based on the book of the same name.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 關於達爾文你所不知道的事：當年，達爾文花了一天的時間重複把巨蜥一隻一隻抓起來往海裡扔，為了只是想知道巨蜥能不能在海裡游泳，如今紀實作家Eric Simons，即將追隨達爾文的腳步

世界最南端的城市: 烏蘇懷亞(Ushuaia)正下著大雪。本書作者Eric Simons 在二手書店閒逛，無意之間找到達爾文的名著《小獵犬號航海記》。於是Simons讀完此書後，當下決定追隨達爾文的腳步，展開一場冒險旅程。
跟隨達爾文腳步的Simons和當年的達爾文一樣，還只是個年輕小伙子，卻到南美洲展開五年的科學考察之旅。
根據《小獵犬號航海記》Simons試著從達爾文的雙眼，使讀者彷彿親臨現場實地，重新看待南美洲這一塊充滿各樣色彩的神秘大陸。Simons研究當地的歷史人文、生態環境，挖掘南美當地人所認識達爾文，背後更多鮮為人知的秘辛……
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9b-sMAatu8
Website:
http://www.darwinslepthere.com/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9b-sMAatu8(Jennifer)

Awards/获奖情况：★ 普立茲獎得主，鮑伯‧西普臣強力推薦
★ 電視紀錄片已開拍
備受矚目的紀實作家Eric Simons，以輕鬆、詼諧、創新的筆觸加上嶄新的角度
重新看待進化論之父 -- 達爾文

Reviews
"Too often we forget that major accomplishments often stem from youthful abandon. Twenty-something Charles Darwin had a rippin’ good time mingling with South America’s gauchos and iguanas. Discovering this inspired young Eric Simons to retrace the great naturalist’s rambling tracks. The result is this wildly entertaining reminder that science and exploration can be a blast."---BOB SIPCHEN, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of Baby Insane and the Buddha

“Eric Simons has given us a bracingly fresh portrait of the Young Darwin, the man long ago lost behind the great white beard. Here is Darwin as only another young naturalist could find him, and to see the world through those avid eyes, groping for the theory that would explain all he has so brilliantly observed, is nothing less than exhilarating.”---MICHAEL POLLAN, author of In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire

"...Eric Simons celebrates a refreshingly different Darwin: a twenty-something traveler fond of hurling iguanas into the sea and charging up any tall peak he could find...."---Outside Magazine

"Vivid and exotic, Eric Simons’ tale invites comparisons to Chatwin as he leads readers among guanacos and ostriches, assasin bugs and armadillos, through rough seas swift currents, and ascending jungles. This is a book full of zest and discovery with the deeper mission of appreciating one of humankind’s great breakthroughs in the understanding of our past."---LOU URENECK, author of Backcast

"...It’s also hard to put Simons’ book down - lighthearted adventures that keep a reader wanting more. But Simons is on his way as a writer; he’ll be back....."---DAVID PERLMAN, San Francisco Chronicle

"...Eric manages to provide new context for some of the defining events in Darwin’s young life and to retrieve many oft-overlooked aspects of Darwin-the-man, and his development, from caricatures of Darwin-the-scientist...."---JOSH BRAUN, Wide Aperture

"I used to read a lot of travel books before I caught the Darwin bug. But Eric Simons’s book offers the best of both worlds: a travel book about following in Darwin’s footsteps. It describes exactly the journey I have often contemplated making, were I but 20 years younger and 20 times more adventurous..."---RICHARD CARTER, Friends of Charles Darwin

About the Author/作者介绍： Eric Simons，2008年取得美國柏克萊大學新聞系學位。常在 San Francisco、 California 、 Mother Jones 、洛杉磯時報、Sierra 和 Canoe & Kayak 等報章雜誌發表專欄，是一位備受文壇肯定的新生代作家。

Format:电子手稿

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