Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2020: Wild Galápagos Escape

Notebooks used by Darwin during his voyage in the Beagle. It contains transcriptions of all fifteen notebooks, which now survive as some of the most precious documents in the history of science.

This narrative follows eight men from the California Academy of Sciences who set off on an expedition to the Galápagos Isands in 1905. They returned a year later with 78,000 specimans, which served to validate the conclusions of Charles Darwin.

Recreates Darwin's visit to the islands.

Photography that captures the behaviors of land and sea animals in the Galápagos Islands. Complete with a brief text that provides context.

Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world.

Written during the second half of Vonnegut's fertile literary career, Galapagos is narrated by the ghost of a shipbuilder who tells his story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.

Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Amend depicts an American woman whose path takes her from Minnesota to the Galápagos Islands on the brink of World War II.

A collection of recent research into the origin and nature of ocean islands.

Provides an overview of and guide to the geological setting and related features of the volcanically active Galápagos Islands, as well as an analysis of its relationship to the region's unique ecology.

Up-to-date information about evolution in Galápagos with context that includes the islands' biology, geology, climate, and history.

In this work Quiroga and Sevilla explore how Darwin´s legendary visit to the Galápagos Islands affected ecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.