Syms Covington was a cabin boy on the famous Beagle ship, carrying Charles Darwin on his voyage of discovery. In 1835 they reached the Galapagos Islands,...
This story is based on Charles Darwin's cabin boy, Syms Covington. This is a survival story. I really like the intensity of this book, I was often so capt...
During his voyage with Mr Darwin, and storm occurs and washes Syms onto a unexplored island with a volcano, a lizard and what he thinks is a dragon. I lik...
Based in the Galapagos island, A heart-warming relationship between the protagonist and a mythical creature. This is an adventurous story of how humans sh...
The book is about a boy called Covington who was washed up on an island and was saved by a lizard. What I like about this book is that Farthing, the lizar...
Syms Covington was taken on to the Beagle as cabin boy and fiddler, but has spent the past two years acting as assistant to Mr Darwin, a young scientist,...
I was delighted to have the chance to review Darwin's Dragons as I knew it was the perfect class reader for Y6 and would support their evolution topic in sc...
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