Category: | Book |
By (author): | Gray, Charlotte |
Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General |
Audience: | general/trade |
Publisher: | Harper Collins Canada |
Published: | September 2007 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 480 |
Size: | 8.43in x 5.50in x 1.20in |
From The Publisher* | Impeccably researched, and written with Charlotte Gray's unerring eye for personal and historical detail, Reluctant Genius tells the story of a man very different from his public image. Most of us think of Alexander Graham Bell as a white-bearded sage, but the young A lec Bell was a passionate and wild-eyed genius, a man given to fits of brilliance and melancholy. His technologies for photophones, tetrahedrals, flying machines and hydrodomes laid the groundwork for future achievement. And he adored his wife, Mabel, a beautiful, deaf young woman from a blueblood Boston family. Gray goes where no other writer has gone, delving deeply into Bell's personality and into his intense relationship with Mabel, whose background and temperament were a startling contrast to his own. Reluctant Genius takes us on an intimate journey into the golden age of invention and the vibrant life of a man whose work shaped our world. |
Review Quote* | "Rich in detail and measured in pace.... It is not only a fascinating book about an important inventor ... but also a good story about two lives well lived." (The Globe and Mail) |
Biographical Note | CHARLOTE GRAY is one of our pre-eminent biographers. Her #1 bestseller, Flint & Feather, won the 2002 UBC Medal for Canadian Biography and the Drummer Generals Award. She is also the author of the multi-award-winning books Sisters in the Wilderness and Mrs. King. A graduate of Oxford University and a recipient of the Pierre Berton Award from Canadas National History Society, Charlotte Gray lives in Ottawa. Visit her online at ... |