In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Book Overview

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring mind.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393241645
• ISBN13: 9780393241648
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"