I read this because I was going to take a trip to the Galapagos, and Darwin’s travelogue is an enjoyable one. I assumed that most of the book would be consumed with flora and fauna. There is certainly plenty of that, but Darwin also comments on the numerous people that he meets — indigenous groups, Spanish colonizers, missionaries, and so on. He has almost nothing to say about the voyage itself — there are huge gaps in the narrative when they are merely “at sea.” But I enjoyed reading it for what it is.