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
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
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
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.