Seeing as it's been a while since I've recommended a website to this blog, I think that's how I'll start today. The Darwin Correspondance Project is an attempt to publish in book form all the letters that Charles Darwin wrote during his life.
Darwin is noted as a enthusiastic letter writer, and over 2000 letters are known about. Whilst a good proportion were to other notable characters of the time this wasn't exclusively the case, and a great many of those he corresponded with left no mark on history apart from their conversations with Darwin.
Anyway, they've recently stuck a load of these letters on their website and you can have a look at them there.
Here's what he said about the Beagle trip to an old friend from Cambridge - "The scheme is a most magnificent one. We spend about 2 years in S America, the rest of time larking round the world" So there you go - proof that Darwin was the original gap year traveller.
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