Waterstones John Aubrey
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography. With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey's own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.'A game-changer in the world of biography' Mary Beard' Ingenious' Hilary Mantel' Irresistible' Philip Pullman.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780099490630
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780099490630
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Author: W. A. Featherby
Rating: 5
Review: Ms Scurr sets out to achieve two things in this wonderful book, and succeeds with both. She firstly describes, through the medium of scraps from a fictional diary, the long life of a polymath on the boundary between the old world of superstition and the new world of science and the scientific method. She secondly, and more intimately, chronicles the distractions and set backs of a man who just wants to get on with his investigations and enquiries. The reader keenly senses Aubrey’s frustrations as illness, litigation, postal delays, academic squabbles and political upheavals hinder and often defeat his nobler aims of archaeology, botany and the broad pursuit of knowledge. The book reeks of the seventeenth century and is a considerable work of scholarship.
Author: Shed Painter
Rating: 3
Review: I haven't got into it. The Author tries to use Aubrey's words, and it doesn't read well to me. I'll return to it when I have time.
