FIGURING
Genius is local, governed by the protective spirit of a place, embedded, nurtured by circumstances and moments that are random, uncalculated, errant, and only later observed as fateful. Maria Popova gives us the lives of five American women--the astronomer Maria Mitchell, the feminist Margaret Fuller, the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, the poet Emily Dickinson, and the marine biologist Rachel Carson--who come to be possessed by genius and find original directions to pursue. Figuring traces the hesitant, uncertain arcs of their influences, intersections, and self-encounters as they coalesce into something previously unimagined, their aspirations unfolding in the completeness of being.
Автор | Maria Popova |
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Страници | 608 |
Корица | твърда |
Език | английски |
Година | 2019 |
Дата на получаване | 10.03.2019 г. |
Издателство | BALLANTINE BOOKS |
ID на книга | 50724813 |
ISBN | 9781524748135 |
Категории | Биографии Книги на английски език |