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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week…
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"What Darwin Saw"
HOST:
Many people enjoy an adventure story. Others like mysteries that lead the reader to an exciting discovery. The story of the young British naturalist Charles Darwin combines both of these. That is why author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer chose to write the children's book "What Darwin Saw: The Journey that Changed the World." The National Geographic Society published her book just in time for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on February 12th, 1809. Steve Ember has more.
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"What Darwin Saw" is written in graphic novel form. That means it tells its story through pictures as well as words.
Rosalyn Schanzer carefully gathered Darwin's thoughts and observations from his diaries, letters and books. Many of the words in the book are Darwin's own.
Miz Schanzer also traveled to the Galapagos Islands and South America. She researched some of the places Darwin visited on his trip on the ship H.M.S. Beagle in the 1830s. She took thousands of pictures. These helped her create the book's beautiful and colorful drawings. These pictures show young readers what led Darwin to form his great discovery: the evolution of species through natural selection.
"What Darwin Saw" tells of the adventures of a young man who travels around the world as a ship's scientist. Gone is the popular image of Charles Darwin as an old man with a long, white beard. Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only 22 years old when he left Plymouth, England in 1831.
ROSALYN SCHANZER: "He was young and I had a very good time drawing his picture because I used a lot of reference material that were paintings made of him at different times in his life.
Miz Schanzer's pictures of Darwin capture the energy and excitement that she sensed in his early writings.
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