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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780007149520
ISBN: 0007149522
Label: HarperPress
Manufacturer: HarperPress
Number Of Pages: 380
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperPress
Studio: HarperPress
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I'm not a scientist. I have only a passing interest in the history of science. However, I'm c250 pages in and I am gripped. Holmes has the narrative skill of a great novelist, conjuring worlds and characters out of what could have so easily have been dry facts. Starting with Joseph Banks' experiences in Tahiti (he travelled as part of Cook's expedition), Holmes takes the reader into the mindset of the European encountering new, unknown worlds. In particular - in this case - their complex responses ... Read More
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Given this book as a birthday present I started to read it as I had half an hour to kill and was immediately gripped. This is a wonderfully written and thoroughly interesting collection of stories, anecdotes and brief biographies woven together with skill and care. I have learned a lot whilst reading this book and enjoyed myself in the process, I heartily recommend it.
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This reviewer found this work to be an altogether fascinating book, scanning and encompassing a myriad of topics and even ideas "heterogeneously yoked by violence together", cemented through the sheer quality and vivacity of the author's writing merits.
Holmes has been described as 'a literary traveller'. Best known for a number of important works on the topic of War, Wellington et al, The Age of Wonder is a different case altogether. To risk being oversimplistic, and depending on one's ... Read More
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