"This reversed order of things": re-orientation aboard HMS Beagle. From: Biography | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Harley, Alexis | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Less than a year into the voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin wrote in his diary: "whilst I am lamenting the northern progress of the sun, everybody in England is rejoiced at it: as yet I am no ways accustomed to this reversed order of things. It sounds very good to hear of fruits only ripening at Christmas" (69). (1) Darwin's Beagle Diary renders literal the commonplace autobiographical metaphor of life as a journey: the voyage from England to the antipodes reverses the order of ...