Richard Dawkins AN APPETITE FOR WONDER First Edition Signed
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Richard Dawkins AN APPETITE FOR WONDER First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of AN APPETITE FOR WONDER (The Making of a Scientist: A Memoir) by Richard Dawkins and published by Bantam Press in 2013. Signed by Dawkins on the title page. Full numberline 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. 'Signed by the Author' belly band.The book is in near fine condition (blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket (protected in an archival sleeve) that has light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
In An Appetite for Wonder we join Richard Dawkins on a personal journey back to an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, where the exotic natrual world was his constant companion. Boarding school in England at the age of eight and public school at Oundle introduce Dawkins, and the reader, to strange rules and eccentric schoolmasters, vividly described with both humorous affection and some reservation. An initial fervent attachment to Church of England religion soon gives way to dissafection and, later, teenage rebellion.
From innocent child to charisamatic world-famous scientist, Dawkins paints a colourful, richly textured canvas of his early life. Honest self-reflection and witty anecdotes are interspersed with touching reminiscences of family and friends, literature, poetry and songs. We are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins.
294 pages including black & white and colour photographs, plus Acknowledgements and Index.
ISBN: 978 0 593 07089 5
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