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The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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hardcover. An experimental biography of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century physician, philospher and writer Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; BGH; BGL; HBTB; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 686. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Granta
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847089007
SKU
KTS0037933
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99-1
About Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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.
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