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...It has long drawn curious visitors, including Charles Darwin, who in 1831 observed that the large boulders scattered in the valley contained marine seashells....
...Alice in Wonderland responded to the bewilderment Darwin’s discoveries imposed on the Victorian mind. Kafka wrote Metamorphosis when a hostile society made him feel like an insect....
...He has expressed doubt about Darwin’s theory of evolution and has claimed that the Inquisition was a fiction invented by Protestants....
...The learnedness continues in the 12 suites, each named after an illustrious Cambridge alumnus — Turing, Woolf, Darwin — and each with a fitting selection of books....
...Charles Darwin. It’s a world of books.” He adds, with perfect comic timing: “Apart from being a place that calls you Paki.” The room laughs....
...Hooker — a close friend of Charles Darwin and the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — was among the first westerners into Sikkim....
...While his Darwin-based company arranges visits for different budgets, Lord limits his private guiding to 125 days a year. I visited in May, on a seven-night journey in and out of Darwin....
...“People thought Pakistan was all about Islamic fundamentalism; we needed a cultural counterbalance,” says Chiu, who was born to Chinese-Australian parents in Darwin....
...At the city’s historic heart, Samuel Johnson and Erasmus Darwin’s former homes sit among some fine Georgian and medieval architecture....
...“As Charles Darwin appreciated, it is quite wrong to think of us having ‘descended’ from today’s great apes.”...
...When it developed in the 19th century, it shook up human belief systems much more violently than Darwin did, and it is not hard to see why....
...Worlington’s surroundings speak of modesty, yet on the boards you find the names of famous golf writers (Bernard Darwin), architects (Harry Colt) and commentators (Henry Longhurst)....
...Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England By Steve Jones Little, Brown, £20 Jones, genetics professor at University College, London, draws out the rich material in Darwin’s lesser-known natural...
...Islands are schools of individuality, perhaps of idiosyncrasy, which is something to be proud of; they produce specimens as quirky as the finches and tortoises that amazed Charles Darwin when he visited...
...Katherine town is on the main Stuart Highway 314km south of Darwin and 1,177km north of Alice Springs....
...‘Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, to 24 February. Tel: +44 (0)151-478 4199...
...The year’s playing partners included a Darwin family member at Aberdovey, a Walker Cup captain at Birkdale, a Scottish amateur champion at St George’s and a British Universities champion at Muirfield....
...Having never played this wonderful course, which hosts the Walker Cup in September, it took less than five seconds to say yes....
...Little Neighbours of Sunnyside Street By Jessica Spanyol Walker Books £10.99, 64 pages FT bookshop price: £8.79 “Playing, making, bumping, bashing, singing” runs the coverline, and indeed Spanyol’s animal...
...THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins Bantam Press ₤20, 406 pages Champion of Darwin and scourge of the godly, Dawkins slashes through the undergrowth of superstition, mysticism, cant and hypocrisy as he...
...Of the problems at the eighth hole Darwin wrote: “I am sure he felt supremely unhappy then but I do not believe he had one moment’s happiness in any of his other rounds....
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