PROJECT Charles Darwin /Second Voyage Around the World (2005-2009)

Press Release 29th September 2008

The third book on Charles Darwin/ Second Voyage around the World (Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Cocos-Keeling islands) is published in Italy by Rizzoli/RCS Libri.It will be available at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2008. The introduction is written by Giulio Giorello (University of Milan). The Project  is completed, including the first remake of Darwin's voyage. (It was registered as a project for the Rolex Award for Enterprise n.163, April 2005) .The Project has been supported By WWF Italy, the Italian Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums) and the Museum of Natural History of Milan. Charles Darwin/ Second voyage around the world ended at the Heathrow airport after having covered between 2005 and 2008 almost 90.000 kilometers around the world using a wide variety of means of transport. Luca Novelli and some of his travelling companions will attend the Frankfurter Buchmesse and will be present at the stands of Rizzoli/RCS Libri and of the other publishers of the books on the Darwin 2 Project. The photograph shows Luca Novelli with three members of the first mission:  Ingrid Gattermann, Federico Canobbio Codelli, Francesco Balladore (Canal Beagle, December 2005) . "In this book it is Charles Darwin himself who speaks about his extraordinary voyage, but  many important and sometimes unbelievable details  would not have come to light  if Novelli  did nt  rightly give them back the freshness which had been removed by a sometimes more commemorative than scientific historiography". Enrico Banfi, Director of the Museum of Natural History in Milan  (June 2006) * "Luca Novelli, who brilliantly unites scientific culture, divulgation ability and artistic qualities, reproposes Darwin 's extraordinary voyage in the contemporary context, which is entirely different from that of the early 19th century". Gianfranco Bologna, Scientific Director of WWF Italia (June 2007) * "This is an open invitation to understand the serious problems facing humanity and environment today, without forgetting the past , but using it reasonably in order to assist science in furthering sustainable developments".   Daniele Jalla, President of the Italian Committee ICOM (International Council of Museums_UNESCO) (June 2007)

Capo Verde - Rio de Janejro: this step is done - Uruguay & Argentina: this step is done

Chile, Peru', Galapagos: this step is done

Tahiti-New Zealand- Australia- Cocos Keeling- Mauritius: this step is done.

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Press Release March 27. 2008. 

Luca Novelli has accomplished the third and most important step of the remake of Charles Darwin's voyage around the world.

At the Bologna Bookfair for young people( March 31st - April 3rd ) pictures as well as  a reportage will be available about the journey he made together with his travelling companions from Tahiti unto the Cocos Islands, where  Darwin had worked  out the theory of the atolls .

 

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The Darwin2 Project , sponsored by WWF Italy and by the Italian Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums), started  in 2005 and brought Novelli to cover during 4 years a distance  of about 90.000  kilometres through 10 countries and more than 120 museums and protected areas born on Beagle's way.

Aim of Novelli 's project  is to rewrite with today's eyes "The Voyage of the Beagle" , published by Darwin in 1839,  focusing the environmental and anthropological differences between his observations and present reality.Now, after his voyage made in January and February 2008,  Luca Novelli is working on the texts and drawings of the third volume:  Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania.  This book, as well as the previous volumes (Voyaging with Darwin 1 and 2) will be published in Italy by Fabbri/RCS Libri.   The first two books which already appeared are published, or on the way to be published,  also in Spain, Germany, Corea and other European and extra-European countries. The Darwin2 Project arose in view of the bicentenary of Darwin's birth (Darwin Day February12,2009) The third volume  of the saga will be available at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2008.

The  stages of the voyage are reported also in the  magazine "Tuttoturismo" edited by Nicoletta Salvatori and by Andersen. The material gathered will be also used in the episode devoted to Darwin in  "Lampi di genio" ,  with Luca Novelli, a TV series of
 RAI Educational,  and programmed in 2008.

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Luca Novelli thanks all those who supported in various ways this phase of the Project and especially the Tahiti Tourist Authority, Canon Italia, Nokia, GoAustralia, Tour 2000, Fabbri Editore/RCS Libri,  Rai Educational, the magazine Tuttoturismo, Cape Horn for the clothing,   the Centre of Scientific Culture  Alessandro Volta in Como, the Rotary Club Baradello, WWF Italia and ICOM, Italian committee.

-Charles Darwin / Second Voyage around the World- has been the first project of a remake of Darwin's voyage to be announced in the official celebration of the Darwinday 2009.***

Press Release 5th December 2007. On wednesday, 2007, december the 5th, at the Libreria Rizzoli, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 79, Milan, at six o'clock pm, Giulio Giorello, Beatrice Masini and Nicoletta Salvatori will present the book Travelling with Darwin Vol.II, written by Luca Novelli and published in Italy by Fabbri/Rcs.The book is about the journey through the Straits of Magellan and the Galapagos Islands, from the glaciers that break in the Pacific Ocean to the Islands of the giant turtles. Foreword by Gianfranco Bologna, scientific director of WWF, and Daniele Jalla, president of ICOM (International Council of Museums), Italy.Cover by Giovanni de Conno, GOLD MEDAL of the American Illustrators, inside drawings and photographs by Luca Novelli and other members of the mission. Also drawings and illustrations by the companions of Charles Darwin during his first mythical journey.

 

On 12th February 2009 Darwin Day will be celebrated. At that time two hundred years have passed from Darwin's birth. For this occasion Luca Novelli, the popular science author, during the year 2005 begun to make again the voyage around the world that Darwin did between December 1831 and October 1836, in order to re-write - with the knowledges we have nowadays - The voyage of the Beagle, putting the accent on the difference and changes occurred. In these first steps Luca Novelli was accompanied by Federico Canobbio Codelli, philosopher and painter, Francesco Balladore, photoreporter, and Ingrid Gattermann, naturalist.  In the book, Charles Darwin in first person tells about his new voyage around the world. He describes with astonishment the innumerable novelties and the people he meets, comparing with those of his first voyage with the Beagle. He compares the glaciers of nowadays with those he saw at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. He discovers huge deforested territories and the big towns founded on the land once green and desert. He tells about evolution, but also about the climate that changes under his eyes.  The first book tells about the Atlantic steps and is published in Italy by Fabbri/RCS. It will soon appear in Spain and South Korea and within the year it will be published by other European and International countries.  At the Bologna Children Bookfair (April 2007) it is possible to look at the first images of the second book  on Pacific Ocean steps: Chile, Peru, Galapagos. It is a 10.000 km voyage along the South American western coasts, from the glaciers falling into the ocean to Chiloe island,  from the Andes to Mendoza in Argentina and Lima in Peru. And again to Galapagos, the last frontier of Nature and Land.    In this book too - as planned in Charles Darwin project - The second voyage around the world - you could find the list of museums and protected areas sprang up along the Beagle route. In fact the project is sponsored by WWF and ICOM (International Council of Museums, UNESCO).   Luca Novelli thanks the technical sponsors of this latest experience: Canon Italia, CapeHorn, Nokia, Tour 2000 and Tuttoturismo magazine.  For more information: Children’s Book Fair/Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi. Bologna 24-27 aprile Stand Fabbri/Rcs Stand Quipos

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