> 19th-century naturalist’s version of backpacking around Europe during a gap year I find it hard to imagine sailing around the somewhat quite unknown world on

> 19th-century naturalist’s version of backpacking around Europe during a gap year I find it hard to imagine sailing around the somewhat quite unknown world on an 19thC sailing ship (rum, sodomy and the lash, not to mention scurvy, rats, cockroaches) was much like a millennial gap year.