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Travis Elborough

Through The Looking Glasses

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Everything was made for a purpose; everything is necessary for the fulfilment of that purpose. Observe that noses have been made for spectacles; therefore we have spectacles' from Voltaire's CandideIn Through the Looking Glasses Travis Elborough uses a single, life-changing object to tell a much bigger story.Using personal observation, memoir, reportage, science, social history and cultural criticism , the book moves chronologically through the story of spectacles.The historical scope is wide, ranging from early theories about how the eye worked and theological and philosophical arguments about the limits of perception by Greek thinkers and A… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4087-1284-9
  • EAN: 9781408712849
  • Produktnummer: 33638023
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B13.8 cm

Über den Autor


Acclaimed by the Guardian as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for nearly two decades. Elborough's books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. Elborough regularly appears on Radio 4 and recently wrote and presented the five-part series, The Rise and Fall of the Antique, and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and Observer, among other newspapers and magazines.

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