Charles Darwin’s great-great- granddaughter, Sarah Darwin, is sailing on the Stad Amsterdam with a group of historians and naturalists, as well as a film crew for Dutch VPRO Television and Hollywood actor John Malkovich. They will be retracing the voyage of HMS Beagle on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species.
Sarah sails in ancestor famous footsteps
Sarah will be joined by journalist and historian Christopher Lloyd, palaeontologist Peter Ward, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger and geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells.
Also on board will be American philosopher Daniel Dennett, fossil- hunters, DNA researchers, geologists and archaeologists.
The crew will visit research ships, swim with whales and sharks and even explore the “plastic islands” of rubbish which can now be found floating on the ocean.
The voyage is taking place 200 years since Charles Darwin’s birth and marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of the Species.
Click here to see a short video of Sarah Darwin giving a tour of the bridge of the Stad Amsterdam.
Darwin’s Beagle Journey – The Clipper Stad Amsterdam follows in Charles Darwin’s footsteps