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Darwin's Darkest Hour

By Alicia Waters | November 10, 2009

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, this great naturalist and his wife were the focus of a docudrama, Darwin’s Darkest Hour, on Channel 36, Monday, November 9th. If you missed the program or want to read and listen to more about the life of Charles Darwin, his contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace and of natural history and evolution, see the list below for what’s available through Talking Books Plus.

Cassettes:

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin  RC015937

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith  RC068925

Darwin, his daughter, and human evolution  RC055633

Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands  RC054422

Life: a Natural History of the First Billion Years of Life on Earth  RC046959

Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species  RC069357

The Spice Islands voyage: the Quest for Alfred Wallace the man who shared Darwin’s discovery of evolution  RC051506

Described Videos:

Ghosts in your Genes  (genetics and evolution)  DVD00138

Origins Fourteen Billion Year of Cosmic Evolution   (how the universe and earth began  amid chaos and gave birth to life)   DVD00038

The words in this posting,  Darwin’s Darkest Hour, have a link to another webpage.

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