On February 12, 2009 two hundred years have passed from Darwin's birth and Darwin Day will be celebrated. It will be a very important international event and scientists and institutions in the different countries are already on work.

For this occasion Luca Novelli, the popular science author, proposed the scientific community to repeat the voyage Darwin did between December 1831 and October 1836, in order to re-write - with the knowledges we have nowadays -"The voyage of the Beagle".

In these books, Charles Darwin in first person tells this new voyage around the world. Darwin doesn't travel anymore on Beagle brigantine, but on modern ships, planes, trains, rubber dinghies or fiberglass boats. He describes with astonishment the innumerable novelties, together with the description of woods, villages and people he meets, and compares what he sees now with what he remembers and described in his first book, "The voyage of the Beagle". The result is a modern adventure, full of information, anecdotes, historical characters and real people. The books contain drawings and pictures Luca Novelli collected during his voyage and researches.

In the appendix you'll find the list of National Parks websites, protected areas and Natural History museums he visited during the voyage.