NEWS AND EVENTS
“Compelling . . . Mr. Chaffin’s Odyssey presents a heroic adventure. His robust Darwin is an English Odysseus sailing a global wine-dark sea. . . . Chaffin’s Odyssey, offers “new and exciting ideas that will likely beat out the competition.”
—Robert M. Thorson, The Wall Street Journal
How Charles Darwin’s encounters with Brazilian slavery led to his vow to never again visit a slave-holding country. For adapted excerpt from Odyssey published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, please click here.
“A very varied, very interesting, very well-written look at the young Charles Darwin . . . a wonderful look not only at a fellow’s life, but also at the world that he discovers. . . . What a book!” I’m grateful to Nick Schenke of NPR affiliate WBAA, West Lafayette, Ind., for his podcast episode devoted to “Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World”—with a great reading of the book’s opening scene. To access the podcast, please click here.
For a recent essay in the Boston Globe on Darwin’s enduring hold on us, please click here.
For a recent article in American Scholar on some of the themes explored in Odyssey, click here.
For an excerpt from Odyssey that appeared in the Daily Beast, click here.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
Lecture: “Revolutionary Brothers:
Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations.”
North Carolina Museum of History
5 East Edenton St., Raleigh, NC, 27601
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
Lecture on Odyssey
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia
For more information and to register for remote access via Zoom, please click here.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
6:30 PM
The Yale Club of New York City
50 Vanderbilt Avenue
Talk and discussion: Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World.
Monday, March 14, 2022
6:00 PM
The New York Society Library
53 East 79th Street, New York, NY, 10075
212 288-6900
reference@nysoclib.org.
The New York Society Library, talk and discussion, Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World. Livestream $10.
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022
4:00 PM
A Cappella Books
208 Haralson Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Ga, 30307
Please join us at A Cappella Books, where I’ll be signing my new book Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World.
