Age of Wonder

Age of Wonder

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Shortlisted 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.The 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...
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Shortlisted 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.The 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...
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  • Access Mode: Visual, Auditory, Tactile
  • Access Mode Sufficient: Visual
  • Accessibility Feature: All non-decorative content supports reading without sight, Appearance of all textual content can be modified, No reading system accessibility options actively disabled (except), Publisher contact for further accessibility information, Single logical reading order, Table of contents navigation
  • ISBN: 9780007349883
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2009
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM