What I keep wishing for is a new audio book. David Attenborough’s reading an unabridged “Voyage of the Beagle” now he could inflect the mettle of the Darwin. That would be very cool. {anyone here have connects to the man 
} I know there is at least one audio version out there but it soo sucks; totally lacking emotion or insight, like some bored brit school master reading off math lessons. It’s a long book so it actually wore me down after a while, really took a lot of fun out of the reading. Oh how I longed for Attenborough’s insight filled, enthusiastic Oxford English narrative. . . but I digress.
As for Darwin’s sturm und drang,
Seems, from what I’ve read the man’s struggle had more to do with respecting his wife’s/families sensibilities and appreciating the prickly public masses and the emotions his book would stir up. After all he did have a family to support and there was other stuff to write about first, and a career to establish. Not to say he didn’t have his moral or spiritual struggle, but that never seemed any worse than what most us experience ourselves. Well, that and having his little angel daughter cut down. Enough to throw anyone into a tail spin.
