Books by Richard Holmes

Derry Revisited (2005)
In 1719, sixteen families left Ireland for America and founded a community called Nutfield, which ev...

Falling Upwards (2013)
Documents the experiences of the pioneers of human flight to offer insight into the character qualit...

The Age of Wonder (2010)
"The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynami...

Footsteps (1985)
Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had ina...