{"product_id":"the-age-of-wonder-richard-holmes","title":"The Age of Wonder (Richard Holmes)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery - astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical - that together made up the 'age of wonder'.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period's celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner's lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn 1974 his \u003cem\u003eShelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/em\u003e won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as 'surely the best biography of Shelley ever written'. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eHe lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 554 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63410622857565,"sku":"K022469438","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/222460-2246943800001A.jpg?v=1770959247","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-age-of-wonder-richard-holmes","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}