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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
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
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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, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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Misleading title
- By Diane on 08-04-11
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-28-11
- Language: English
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Falling Upwards
- How We Took to the Air
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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A Significant Factual-Interpretative Error
- By William P. Mitchell on 04-01-20
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Falling Upwards
- How We Took to the Air
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-29-13
- Language: English
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The Western Front
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Richard Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in the Great War, most died here. In this thorough examination of the role the Front played in the war, the eminent historian Richard Holmes considers its initial creation, the rapid expansion of the British army (which led to problems with the supply of men and munitions), the challenge of coping with life and death at the Front, and the regular attempts by soldiers to "break the trench". He also examines two major battles in detail.
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The Western Front
- Narrated by: Richard Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-01-12
- Language: English
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This Long Pursuit
- Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- By: Sir Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with recreating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, but on their biographers, as well. He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives, and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature.
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Holmes Rediscovered
- By M. Nelson on 10-27-22
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This Long Pursuit
- Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-28-17
- Language: English
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Battlefields
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Richard Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Battlefields is what every Richard Holmes fan has been waiting for. Richard Holmes skilfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War 2 military campaigns: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem and the Battle of Britain (the Main Offensive). In this fascinating and brilliantly articulated study of war, he recreates what it was really like to be in the midst of bloody conflict from letters, diaries and interviews with soldiers awarded campaign medals for their heroism during World War 2.
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Battlefields
- Narrated by: Richard Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-13-12
- Language: English
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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From the great biographer of the Romantics, This Long Pursuit is a sweeping exploration of a career devoted to the art of life-writing. Thirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps - a revolutionary novel that would become a best seller and influence profoundly a whole generation of younger writers. The Long Pursuit is a companion audiobook in that it ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration to reflect upon the practice and importance of biographical writing.
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-06-16
- Language: English
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Falling Upwards
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists. Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who in the 1860s flew seven miles above the earth - without oxygen.
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Falling Upwards
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-31-19
- Language: English
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The Numbers People Podcast
- By: Richard Holmes
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Designed for Accounting and Finance professionals and will look into the ins’ and out’s of what makes finance people and their teams great. The goal is for it to become a real value add resource for anyone working within finance. A finance mentoring podcast if you will. The podcast will discuss everything from culture, finance attributes, teams, stresses, careers, systems, robotics, the future of finance and what works and what doesn’t. We're going to be speaking with some highly regarded Senior Finance people from a range of industries, those whom we think will be inspirational to many....
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Falling Upwards
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists. Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who, in the 1860s, flew seven miles above the earth - without oxygen.
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Falling Upwards
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-31-19
- Language: English
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