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The Boundless Deep

Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

By Richard Holmes

On Sale: 12/9/2025

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ISBN: 9780007386932
Imprint: WilliamCol
On Sale: Dec 9, 2025
List price: $37.99
No of pages: 448
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
BISAC 2: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Richard Holmes

Biography

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of the ten New York Times’ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by seven newspapers in 2013. His other biographies include Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the 1974 Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Prize). This Long Pursuit completes the autobiographical trilogy begun in Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). Holmes was awarded the OBE in 1992, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2010.

ISBN: 9780007386932
Imprint: WilliamCol
On Sale: Dec 9, 2025
List price: $37.99
No of pages: 448
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
BISAC 2: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Richard Holmes

Biography

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of the ten New York Times’ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by seven newspapers in 2013. His other biographies include Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the 1974 Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Prize). This Long Pursuit completes the autobiographical trilogy begun in Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). Holmes was awarded the OBE in 1992, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2010.