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