Our first meeting of Easter Term will take place on Monday 12th May in the Godwin Room at Clare College, from 7.30-9pm. We will discuss how authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have converted Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage into suitable books for children, with an introduction to the set readings (see below) by Julie Barzilay. All are welcome to join us for what promises, as usual, to be a wide-ranging, entertaining, and thought-provoking discussion.
- Charles Darwin, Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world (1845 edn). Read the preface and chapter 1 (Porto Praya).
- Wendell Phillips Garrison, What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the ship 'Beagle' (1879). Read the introduction for parents, introduction for children, pages 29–33 in Part I ('The Horse') and pages 92–104 in Part II ('Man'). Feel free to skim the rest of the book.
- Mick Manning and Brita Granström, What Mr Darwin Saw (2009).
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