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Overview
To celebrate its 50 years in print, we are publishing this classic and much loved work as an Audio Book. Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described this memoir of her late Victorian Cambridge childhood as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life and of her eccentric Darwin family, recorded here in her inimitably charming prose reveal an artist's careful eye. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her childhood, her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge academic society.Recorded on 11 cassettes, Anne Harvey brings out the wit and charm of the author and captures the essence of this delightful cameo of a privileged childhood in the Victorian era.
Synopsis
Memories of a turn-of-the-century childhood by the granddaughter of Charles Darwin
Booknews
The 1952 copyright is in the author's name, but the Library of Congress cataloging information indicates Norton in 1976. This reprint contains no new prefatory material but makes available once again the charming autobiographical work of a remarkable English wood engraver. Raverat (1885-1957) describes her life between the ages of 16 and 22 with candor and humor and includes many delightful wood engravings to illustrate her account. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)