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Footsteps : Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (Vintage Departures)
Footsteps Adventures of a Romantic Biographer - Vintage Departures Author:Richard Holmes Richard Holmes's work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called 'Footsteps.' A mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre. Sleeping rough, he r... more »etraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisian riots of the 1960s, he dives back in time to the terrors of Wordsworth and of Mary Wollstonecraft marooned in Revolutionary Paris and then into the strange tortured worlds of Gerard de Nerval. Wandering through Italy, he stalks Shelley and his band of Romantic idealists to Casa Magni on the Gulf of Spezia.« less