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paperback. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear. Ownership details to half title
"Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. ... Read more
"Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hutchinson
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091794903
SKU
KMO0001430
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
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