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Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations
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History leaves traces of the people – Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo – living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles. From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, Nicholl’s twenty-five fascinating essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these wonderful historical traces. ‘Our finest literary and historical detective … Deliciously readable’ Financial Times’Charles Nicholl confirms his role as literature’s historic Holmes … thoroughly captivating’ Scotsman ‘Some writers are so good at what they do that they can take you anywhere. Charles Nicholl is one of them’ Irish Times
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| Weight | 0.259 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 336 |
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| Year Published | 2012-12-6 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0140296824 |
| About The Author | Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer and travel writer. His books include The Reckoning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography and the Crime Writers' Association 'Gold Dagger' award for non-fiction), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize) and the acclaimed biography, Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages. His most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street, which was nominated as 'Book of the Year' twelve times in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States. |
[Nicholls is] a peerless historical sleuth. At once a biographer, an explorer and an investigator, he captures the past and its people in lightning-flashes of illumination. In Nicholl's hands, the driest document can rise from the past and shine. Let's hope for many more scintillating revelations from this magician of lost lives |
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| Other text | History leaves traces of the people – Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo – living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles |
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