Much to his father's dismay, Charles Darwin was more interested in collecting beetles and blowing up garden sheds than he was in schoolwork. At twenty-two Charles Darwin happily adandoned his path toward becoming a clergyman to serve instead as a naturalist on board the ship Beagle, which would take him from England to South America on an unprecedented adventure. After studying the flora and fauna of lands never before explored, the ardent specimen collector and radical thinker was able to answer his lifelong question: Why is the world the way it is?