Richard Holmes (1)

Ballooning was part of the picture in Holmes’s award-winning The Age of Wonder; now, he gives the subject center stage. His exhilarating history of flight starts in the 1780s and includes colorful figures, unexpected adventures, science, and rivalries both national and personal as humans gained an entirely new perspective on the world.

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Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Richard Holmes (Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, Footsteps, Sidetracks, The Age of Wonder, Falling Upwards)

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes’s other books include Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award) Coleridge: Darker Reflections (an NBCC finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Richard Holmes (Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, Footsteps, Sidetracks, The Age of Wonder, Falling Upwards)

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes’s other books include Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award) Coleridge: Darker Reflections (an NBCC finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Richard Holmes debat The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.; Jenny Uglow debat Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition.

Tickets £10 'No question - the non-fiction book of the year is Richard Holmes' Age of Wonder' (Andrew Marr) - an incident-packed account of a time when science and art marched hand in hand, and Coleridge and Humphry Davy were Yin and Yang. Jenny Uglow's Words & Pictures explores fascinating working relationships between writers and artists such as Hogarth and Fielding, Wordsworth and Bewick, Dickens and Phiz. Was there something in the water in 18th and 19th century Britain which catalysed fertile collaborations? Richard Holmes has also written extensively on the Romantic Poets. Jenny Uglow's books include The Lunar Men. (DeadGoodBooks)… (més)