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Author: Travis Elborough
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Abacus
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.280kg
ISBN: 9780349144115
ISBN 10: 0349144117
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 27 April 2023
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Elegantly framed and multi-focal, this is a gloriously panoptical survey. As a history of restored sight it is instructive, and as a narrative of facial furniture it is fascinating -- Simon Garfield 'Exuberant...glasses changed the world Sunday Times This is a thorough, entertaining and thoroughly entertaining history of life through a lens. -- David Quantick Fascinating Rachel Cooke, Observer A bit early for Christmas, but I'd buy a copy now and wrap it up ...lively, engaging, admirably wide-ranging Times There are four billion adults around the globe who wear glasses. It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes New Statesman
Elegantly framed and multi-focal, this is a gloriously panoptical survey... As a history of restored sight it is instructive, and as a narrative of facial furniture it is fascinating * Simon Garfield * This is a thorough, entertaining and thoroughly entertaining history of life through a lens * David Quantick * It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes * New Statesman * A fascinating journey through the history of eye glasses... a rich and detailed account of technology, fashion, medicine and society... encyclopaedic historical and cultural range, intriguing insights and jocular prose * Hackney Citizen * Fascinating... [An] exuberant history of spectacles and those who wear them -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times * Elborough is an elegant writer who moves easily between high art, tricky optics and celebrity culture... This is a lively, engaging, admirably wide-ranging history of everything you could possibly want to know about glasses -- Laura Freeman * The Times * [A] brilliantly enjoyable survey... Elborough brings his own experience as a lifelong myope beautifully to bear on his subject -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian * Fascinating -- Rachel Cooke * Observer * Witty, enjoyable and illuminating... the sort of book that makes you wonder why nobody has ever written it before... Elborough is an erudite cultural historian -- Andrew Lynch * Business Post * [An] exhaustive, illuminating celebration of eyewear... Elborough proves to be an endlessly entertaining and informative guide * Islington Tribune *
Author Information
Acclaimed by the Guardian as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for nearly two decades. Elborough's books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. Elborough regularly appears on Radio 4 and recently wrote and presented the five-part series, The Rise and Fall of the Antique, and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and Observer, among other newspapers and magazines.
