How to Discover the World: Reflections for Rosa (How We Understand the World) - Softcover
Book 4 of 10: Master's Letters
Synopsis
'Make things as simple as possible - but not simpler. It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Write first; think later' Alan Macfarlane has spent sixty years trying to understand the world. He has studied for two doctorates at Oxford and London and traveled through Nepal, Japan and China. In 'Reflections for Rosa' he tells us what he has found out about asking questions, guessing, testing, assembling evidence, creative writing and the conditions of creativity. Alan Macfarlane is a retired Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University. The book complements his 'Letters to Lily.'
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About the Author
Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedburgh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty published books, including 'The Origins of English Individualism' (1978) and 'Letters to Lily: On How the World Works' (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
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