Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781847089038
Publisert
2015-05-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272
Forfatter
Biographical note
Hugh Aldersey-Williams is a writer and curator with interests ranging from science to architecture and design. His prolific career as a freelance journalist included a five-year stint as the design critic of the New Statesman. He lives in Norwich and has for many years been an unreasoning Thomas Browne obsessive.
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience
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An experimental biography of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century physician, philospher and writer.
An experimental biography of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century physician, philospher and writer.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781847089038
Publisert
2015-05-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272
Forfatter