RRP: £25.00
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Publication Date : 01/10/2008
Hardback
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Guardian Bookshop Notes:
The first major biography for a decade from an author whose every book has won a major prize, which through biographies of Joseph Banks, William Herschel and Humphrey Davy, radically re-defines the pre-Darwinian scientific revolution that swept Britain at the end of the eighteenth century.
Publisher's description:
Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography 'The Age of Wonder'.
ISBN: 9780007149520