Full name: Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer

Author: Richard Holmes Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780679770046 0679770046

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 Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. Footsteps is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelation. Similar books: The Road Unseen by Peter Jenkins With Chatwin by Susannah Clapp Passionate Nomad by Jane Fletcher Geniesse Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare Fathers and Sons by Alexander Waugh The Two of Us by Sheila Hancock A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt Savage Art by Robert Polito Cheever by Blake Bailey