Age of Wonder

Richard Holmes

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