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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Richard Holmes
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged — 21 hours, 27 minutes
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By Richard Holmes
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged — 21 hours, 27 minutes
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The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. 

When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, phi…

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