The Harvard Club of Miami

is pleased to share the following invitation from the



  Palm Beach Chapter
Capt. Jack Veasy, President, P.O. Box 3223, Palm Beach, Florida 33480

who invites you and your guests to a

Lunch & Talk with
Harvard Professor Joyce E. Chaplin


who will speak on her book

Round About the Earth:
Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit


 
Monday, December 7, 2015
11:30am

West Palm Beach Marriott Hotel
1001 Okeechobee Blvd.
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Click here for directions

Cost for this event:
$45 per person

 
To RSVP for this event:
Please send your reservation, list of guests and check payable to
“Circumnavigator’s Club,” PO Box 3223, Palm Beach, Fl. 33480
by November 25th, 2015
 
 
Contact Dan O'Connell at docwpb@yahoo.com with questions.



In this first full history of around the world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. For almost 500 years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the earth by sail, steam or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying or going into orbit; even by using their own bodily power. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to encircle the planet.

Joyce E. Chaplin (PhD and MA Johns Hopkins, BA Northwestern) is Harvard’s James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at five different universities on two continents, an island and on the Atlantic Ocean. An award-winning author, her works include The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006). She is the editor of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition (2012). Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal.