Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China - Couverture rigide

Winchester, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670913782 ISBN 13 : 9780670913787

Editeur : Viking, 2008

Synopsis

Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life – Miss Lu, and China.

Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat. By the end of his life, Needham had become the pre-eminent China scholar of all time, a truly global figure, travelling endlessly and honoured by all. And in 1989, after a fifty-two year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion.

Bomb, Book and Compass is Simon Winchester at his best – at once a magnificent portrait of one man's remarkable life and a riveting exploration of the country that so engaged him.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

A bestselling author in both Britain and America, Simon Winchester was born and educated in England and now lives in Massachusetts. Having reported from almost everywhere during more than thirty years as a foreign correspondent, including mainland China and Hong Kong, he now contributes to a variety of magazines and newspapers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670913782
• ISBN 13: 9780670913787
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible