Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer - Richard Holmes - Hardcover - 1st American ed

Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelly and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelly tried to cast off the structures of English morality and marriage. Footsteps is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelation.Holmes, Richard is the author of 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer - Richard Holmes - Hardcover - 1st American ed' with ISBN 9780670323531 and ISBN 0670323535.