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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Marlborough : England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European st ...Show more
Sahib : The British soldier in India 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
From bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire considered to be the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of "Tommy an ...Show more
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir. 'Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of ' ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 ...Show more
The Age of WonderHow the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
The Age of Wonderis 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 t ...Show more
The Romantic Poets and Their Circle by Richard Holmes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
The ideal of the inspired artist owes its origin to the figures of the Romantic period, who revolutionised English art and literature. In this book, Richard Holmes explores the portraits and lives of such key poets as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, and assesses the impact of their work ...Show more
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully... A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' The Oldie Thirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps - a revolutionary book that would become a bestseller and influence profoundly a whole g ...Show more
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Cen ...Show more
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