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Laura Beatty, Beatty Laura

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English · Paperback / Softback

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A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel.

About the author

Laura Beatty is the author of two novels, two biographies and a genre-defying book (part travel, part memoir, part fiction) about a road trip across Europe. Her first novel, Pollard, won the Authors' Club First Novel Award as well as being shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She lives in Bath.

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Product details

Authors	Laura Beatty, Beatty Laura
Publisher	Atlantic Books

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	05.05.2022

EAN	9781838954369
ISBN	978-1-83895-436-9
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies Biography: literary, PHILOSOPHY / General, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, SCIENCE / Natural History, Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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