A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
A History of Seeing
$29.69
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2021
Summary
In 2015, #thedress captured the world’s imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in distant times and places see the world?
Jam-packed with fascinating stories, facts, and insights and impeccably researched, A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions investigates the story of seeing from the evolution of eyes 500 million years…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780750997164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0750997168 |
| Author: | Susan Denham Wade, Tristan Gooley |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
‘I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us … Every page elicits at least one “ah” “ooh” or “wow!”, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions is a remarkable achievement.’
– Stephen Fry‘In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.’
– Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator‘A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that …’
– Giles Coren, presenter, columnist‘From the first fires to the Facebook age, A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.’
– Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experiment and EndeavourSusan Denham Wade
Susan Denham Wade spent twenty years researching, writing and presenting on the future of television, digital media and communications technology as a strategist and media executive at the BBC and in Hollywood. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Non Fiction) from City University, where she was awarded the City Non Fiction Award, as well as degrees in Economics and Law and a Harvard MBA. She lives in West Sussex.
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