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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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Prefazione

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Beatty, Beatty Laura
• Editore: Atlantic Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 05.05.2022
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte
• EAN: 9781838954369
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-436-9
• Categorie: Classics, Travel, History, Biography: literary, PHILOSOPHY / General, Biography, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, Science, Anthropology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, SCIENCE / Natural History, Greece, Botany, 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, Aristotle, Romans, ancients; greece; travel; philosophy; botany; aristotle; history; romans; science; biography; classics