Traversal by Maria Popova

Traversal by Maria Popova

From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life

Praise for Maria Popova's Figuring: Popova writes beautifully, translating abstractions into sensuous, evocative subjects, turning history and science into symphonic prose poetry. . To read Figuring is to be immersed in a gloriously ambitious symphony of ideas that segues effortlessly * * Guardian * *
Ambitious, challenging and somewhat category-defying * * New York Times * *
I can't pull myself away from Maria Popova's mesmerising new book Figuring . . . With glorious writing, storytelling, gems of insight and unique literary range, she tenderly brings to life celebrated scientists and artists we always thought we knew but really didn't, and illuminates the fine threads that connect us all. I'm diving back in! -- DIANE ACKERMAN
These chapters on Dickinson are among the most compelling biographical pages I have ever read, rendering me incapable of closing the book . . . The final chapters on Rachel Carson were so moving that I cried for thirty-odd pages * * Irish Times * *

Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning - sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She has written some very long books (Figuring and Traversal) and some very short books (The Snail with the Right Heart and The Coziest Place on the Moon), and her show The Universe in Verse - a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry - has also become a book the length of a day on Saturn.

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ISBN 13	9781837265619
ISBN 10	1837265615
Title	Traversal
Author	Maria Popova
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2026-03-12
Number of pages	624
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.