An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.Book One: Time The Heavenly Empire From Sun Time to Clock Time The Missionary Clock
Book Two: The Earth and the Seas The Geography of the Imagination Paths to the East Doubling the World The American Surprise Sea Paths to Everywhere
Book Three: Nature Seeing the Invisible Inside Ourselves Science Goes Public Cataloguing the Whole Creation
Book Four: Society Widening the Communities of Knowledge Opening the Past Surveying the Present Compelling readable. . . . A remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, often dramatic details. —The Wall Street Journal
A sumptuous, totally engaging panorama. No one who reads it will look at the chronicle of human ingenuity in the same way again. —David McCullough
Written with great verve . . . [Boorstin's] learning, wit, and lucidity should ensure that he will bring pleasure to a large group of reader. —The New York Review of Books
History with a human touch. —Newsday
A grand and exhilirating voyage, a bold attempt to circumnavigate the intellectual globe. —The Philadlephia InquirerDaniel J. Boorstin was the author ofThe Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he recel#Ú
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