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Falling Upwards
by Richard Holmes
Audio
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748866-7, ISBN: 0-00-748866-1






Falling Upwards(Unabridged)
How We Took to the Air (Library Edition)
by Richard Holmes, To Be Announced
Audio, Published 2013 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4829-3031-3, ISBN: 1-4829-3031-5

"This story of aviation moves from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries and the crazy firework flights of Sophie Blanchard to the astonishing long-distance voyages of American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar and to the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher, FRS, who helped establish the science of meteorology and the notion of a "fragile" planet. Readers will discover the many writers and dream ..."






The Age of Wonder(Unabridged)
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes, Gildart Jackson
Audio, Published 2011 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4551-1432-0, ISBN: 1-4551-1432-4

"A 2009 New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sa ..."






The Age of Wonder(Unabridged)
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes, Gildart Jackson
Audio, Published 2011 by Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-13: 978-1-4551-1430-6, ISBN: 1-4551-1430-8






The Age of Wonder(Unabridged)
The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science Library Edition
by Richard Holmes, Reader-Gildart Jackson, Gildart Jackson
Audio, Published 2011 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Audiobook, Cd
ISBN-13: 978-1-4551-1431-3, ISBN: 1-4551-1431-6

"The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the romantic age of science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of disco ..."






The Western Front
(BBC Radio Collection)
by Richard Holmes
Audio, Published 2001 by Bbc Audiobooks Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-563-47849-2, ISBN: 0-563-47849-7






Battlefields of World War II
(BBC Radio Collection)
by Richard Holmes
Audio, Published 2001 by Bbc Audiobooks Ltd
Audiobook
ISBN-13: 978-0-563-53559-1, ISBN: 0-563-53559-8

"Battlefields is what every Richard Holmes fan has been waiting for. Richard Holmes skilfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War 2 military campaigns: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem and the Battle of Britain (the Main Offensive), In this fascinating and brilliantly articulated study of war. In Battle Honours he recreates what it was really like to be in the midst if bloody conflict from letters, diaries and interviews with sol ..."

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