Publisher Description
Conceived to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Year Without Summer, this iPhone/iPad app tells the story of the famous summer Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and their companions spent in Switzerland -- the summer the world was supposed to end. Beginning in May 2016, the story of the Year Without Summer will unfold as a series of notifications appearing on your iPhone or iPad. Notifications will arrive in real time concurrent to the dates and times the events actually took place in 1816, from Claire Claremont s romantic pursuit of Lord Byron to Percy Bysshe Shelley s writing of Mont Blanc to the famous night when Mary Shelley had a vision of Frankenstein s monster in response to a ghost story writing challenge issued by Lord Byron. Each notification will unlock new content. If you join the story partway through the summer, content will be unlocked until your day of download, so you can read what has already happened and still receive notifications as new events unfold. You will follow the journeys of the group across a map of the region, encounter the daily weather from 1816, and read original source material: the journals, letters, and literary works of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John William Polidori. In this way you can experience the travels of Lord Byron and his entourage as if you were contemporaries. Once the summer is over, you can continue to explore the fully unlocked content at your own pace or choose to reset the story and start over. *This app does not contain any ads or in-app purchases.
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.