Banvard's Folly. Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck

Collins, Paul

ISBN 10: 0330486888 / ISBN 13: 9780330486880

Edité par Picador / Pan Macmillan, London, 2001

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First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 289pp, illustrated. History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen 'losers' who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats. There is the man who discovered N rays only to be eclipsed by X rays; the 'Fenian Ram', a submarine built by Irish immigrants in Mahattan to cross the Atliantic and sink the British fleet, the Frenchman behind a doomed universal language based on musical tones, the unknown and uncredited inventor of the first digital computer and the tragically overconfident Shakespeare forger. Quite a scarce book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Banvard's Folly. Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
• Éditeur: Picador / Pan Macmillan, London
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0330486888
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780330486880
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Jacket by Dave Eggers after Andreas Cellarius
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine

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Synopsis

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen 'losers' who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats. There is the man who discovered N-rays only to be eclipsed by X-rays; the 'Fenian Ram', a submarine built by Irish immigrants in Mahattan to cross the Atriantic and sink the British fleet; the Frenchman behind a doomed universal language based on musical tones; the unknown and uncredited inventor of the first digital computer: and the tragically overconfident Shakespeare forger.