Eric Simons talks with David Perlman about following Darwin’s footsteps in South America and the resulting book, Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin’s South America.
Then came the footsteps: ‘I wanted to capture his adventures,’ Simons says. ‘I wanted to share his experiences and feel the same feelings he must have had because everything in the Beagle book told me Darwin was so joyful, whether he was saddling up with gauchos in Patagonia, or climbing a mountain in Chile, or kicking his heels in the air while he was lying down with a herd of inquisitive camel-like guanacos in a field near Buenos Aires.’ – from “Eric Simons – Frolicking in Darwin’s Footsteps,” by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle