The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World - Hardcover

Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374194408 ISBN 13: 9780374194406

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002

Synopsis

Chronicles the friendships of Matthew Boulton, James, Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, and Joseph Priestly, whose ideas and experiments launched the Industrial Revolution. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A remarkable story of remarkable men, richly detailed and brilliantly told." --Paul S. Seaver, "The New York Times Book Review"

"An absolute wonder of a book."
-"The Economist"
An absolute wonder of a book.

A remarkable story of remarkable men, richly detailed and brilliantly told. "Paul S. Seaver, The New York Times Book Review"

An absolute wonder of a book. "The Economist""

"A remarkable story of remarkable men, richly detailed and brilliantly told." --Paul S. Seaver, The New York Times Book Review

"An absolute wonder of a book." --The Economist

About the Author:

Jenny Uglow is an editor at Chatto & Windus and lives in Canterbury, England. Her previous books include Hogarth (FSG 1997), Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (FSG 1993), and George Eliot. She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0374194408
• ISBN 13: 9780374194406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512