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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
Little, Brown
March 2006
On Sale: March 7, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0316836648
EAN: 9780316836647
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he
boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that
followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America,
Darwin found himself wading through waist-deep mud, climbing
towerlike trees in the rain forest, and scaling craggy
Patagonian cliffs as he closely observed the relationship
between the wild creatures he stalked and the astonishing,
utterly unfamiliar landscapes where he found them. At the
end of these adventures, Darwin emerged a philosophical
naturalist who could draw scientific truths from the simple
stories contained in the creatures he encountered. What
happened to Darwin? Thats the question Lyanda Lynn Haupt
engagingly explores in a narrative that puts us inside the
young Darwins shoesand brings us nose to nose with dung
beetles, ostriches, and all forms of native wildlife. By
focusing mostly on the birds Darwin observed, and by
brilliantly mining his lesser-known writingsdiaries,
correspondence, ornithological journals, unruly little
pocket notebooksHaupt illuminates the process of discovery
that shaped Darwins vision. Her book not only chronicles
Darwins transformation from uncertain amateur to genius but
reminds us how and why, in our own world as well as Darwins,
attention to small things can make a big difference.
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