A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels - Brossura

Henderson, Caspar

 
9781783781355: A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1783781351 ISBN 13: 9781783781355
Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2018

Sinossi

A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring. With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates and explains the wonder of light and the origins of the universe, the myriad marvels of the human body and the natural world -- and reveals the wonders to come: the technologies that will transform human experience and change what we will find wonderful. Drawing on philosophy and natural history, art and religion, neuroscience and nanotechnology, A New Map of Wonders is a celebration of life -- a rich and inspiring guide, encouraging us to see the world anew.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Recensione

'This book does exactly what it says on the cover, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are'--Philip Pullman

'A study of awe written by a writer who evokes the fascination of the natural world as eye-openingly as anyone I've read'--Observer

'Henderson does a wonderful job... you can't read the life chapter without being struck by the contingency of it all - the accident of our existence'--The Times

'Delightfully crammed with fascinating facts... the illustrations are wondrous themselves... Lovely and funny'--Spectator

'A wondrous brew of science, history, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel' ----Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe

L'autore

CASPAR HENDERSON has been a journalist and an editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy (where he was senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters Award for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. His debut, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Granta, 2012), won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
Granta Books
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1783781351
ISBN 13 
9781783781355
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
364
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781783781331: A New Map of Wonders: Henderson Caspar

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1783781335 ISBN 13:  9781783781331
Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2017
Rilegato