The Origin of Species & The Voyage of the Beagle

Darwin is the Homer of our actual occidental civilization because we generally hear an over simplification made in the mediocre journalistic spirit of our time.
If you read Darwin for real, you will see that he was a rigorous scientist that has nothing to do with a mythologist of evolution. For him, evolution is not the true ontological story of the world, but a theory describing changes that we can experiment in biology. Evolution does not explain any origin and can not be use to predict anything. It has also to be complemented with other principles. More than that, “The Origin of Species” is, in fact, explicitly, leaving the “origin” to a rational supra-being (which means, in our modern jargon, that Darwin is, also, a “creationist”) and considers their “evolution” only, as a part of an intelligent design of the world, so it would have better been named “The Evolution of Species” if he had not to struggle against the “immuabilists” of his time.

As for the Voyage…, it is the best of what you can get out of a British scientist who is reporting lots of biological novelties for his time and who is seeing the superiority of his nation everywhere he is travelling.