The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

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Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

March 3rd, 2016

Author

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

352

Dimensions

129x198x22

ISBN-13

9781847089021

Product ID

24158458

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