200 years ago, a ship was built, the legendary HMS Beagle. Today, we celebrate the history of the vessel which explored the Galapagos and sparked Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. | Exodus Adventure Travels

DARWIN: VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE⁠ ⁠ When Charles Darwin, grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, wanted to sail on HMS Beagle, his father, Robert, was unsure. It was Josiah Wedgwood II, Charles’s uncle, who wrote to Robert encouraging the voyage; a voyage that would shape the future. Working closely with Cambridge University Library, home of Darwin’s archive, Wedgwood’s design team has carefully curated original drawings from the voyage into a collection rich in history and expertly crafted in Stoke-on-Trent,

The 1830s were an exciting time for science. All throughout Europe, there was a great movement to explore, map, and classify the world. And it was this expanding world that young Charles Darwin graduated into… albeit with the wrong degree. Because although he would one day be known as “the Father of Modern Biology,” Darwin’s father was set on his son following in his footsteps—as a doctor. Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmzmYmMTKk Viewer survey at: https://www.surve