PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
James Delbourgo is Associate Professor in the History of Science and the Atlantic World at Rutgers. His previous books include A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America, which won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize.
Approachable yet authoritative ... Delbourgo has at last given us a readable and entertaining single-volume account of Sloane's life and legacy -- Michael Hunter * Literary Review * In this fine and erudite book, Delbourgo recovers Sloane from the oblivion into which he has fallen -- Ruth Scurr * Financial Times * Robust, thoughtful and elegantly crafted ... Not before time, the smart lad from Killyleagh, creator of one of the world's great civilising resources, has found his ideal chronicler -- Jonathan Keates * Spectator * A superb biography - human, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself - and a model of how to write a history of collecting -- Arnold Hunt * Times Literary Supplement * A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read -- John Carey * The Sunday Times *
