Wyatt's World: 19th Century Biographical Read-Around
Neal Wyatt -- Library Journal, 08/03/2009
Start With:
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (Pantheon)
Then Read:
- Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne (Princeton)
- Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight, (Cambridge)
- The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael Lemonick (Atlas)
- Joseph Banks: A Life by Patrick O'Brian (Univ. of Chicago)
- Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor (Routledge)
Neal Wyatt is a readers’ advisory and collection development librarian in Virginia.
