The actors double as puppeteers, with great skill Guy Bell / Alamy Stock Photo
The Wider Earth, Natural History Museum, London, to 30 December
IT’S a classic coming-of-age tale: a dreamy, slightly petulant youth goes to sea and has adventures of both life and soul-threatening sorts, to return years later, a man.
But this is not any man, it is one whose voyage will change the world. Thirty years after his return he published the synthesis of all he learned on that journey, woven with new scientific ideas of the time. We know it as Charles Darwin’s On the Origin…
