Paperback. Cream cover with red title and books on the front board.

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This is old fashioned British humour as favoured prior to 1980s. 

This book stemmed from a British radio programme called The Titanic Book List (in the days before Leonardo di Caprio), where participants were invited to nominate three books they would have liked to go down with the Titanic and why. This led to this book, edited by Brian Redhead and Kenneth McLeish and published in 1981. The following is a selection, with emphasis on novels since the end of the 19th Century. The name in the bracket is the person doing the selection. Incidentally, other works to make the list include the Oxford English Dictionary, War and Peace, the New English Bible, the Scarsdale Medical Diet, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Roget’s Thesaurus, Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and the writings of Freud, Balzac and various feminists.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.