{"product_id":"footsteps-book-richard-holmes-9780670323531","title":"Footsteps","description":"Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deeply impressive . . . \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular event in the modern history of biography, and in itself a delightful reading experience.--Alfred Kazin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.--\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A modern masterpiece . . .  Holmes is] the most romantic of contemporary biographers and probably the most revolutionary in spirit and form.--Michael Holroyd, author of \u003ci\u003eBernard Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358998630673,"sku":"CIN0670323535G","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0670323535.jpg?v=1751008518","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/footsteps-book-richard-holmes-9780670323531","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}