River of Shadows - Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

A fascinating and original biography of Eadward Muybridge, charting how his pioneering work in motion picture ushered in a period of technological innovation.

About the author

REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell's Roses, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Recollections of My Non-Existence, which was longlisted for the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, The Faraway Nearby, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism, social change, hope, and the climate crisis. She lives in San Francisco and writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in San Francisco.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Solnit, Solnit Rebecca
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781803511672
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-167-2
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Individual photographers, Individual artists, art monographs, Inventions and inventors, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Individual architects and architectural firms