Surrounding the globe are various rocks from Darwin's collection, and at the press of a button, the viewer can see the sample location on the globe and read interesting tit-bits. Almost every ...

Darwin, like many intellectuals of his era, was well versed in a variety of natural sciences, as well as in medicine and theology. When he set forth on his first voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, he ...

recent shells and corals, which it has baked into a hard white rock. Since then the whole island has been upheaved." Darwin's sickness-induced "dreary thoughts" soon are swept away as he explores ...

On the way, stop off at a number of sites where Darwin was taught to "read the rocks and landscapes" by geologist Adam Sedgewick. You will also see the impressive Chirk Aqueduct, 700-year-old ...