The Discovery of Slowness

Foreword by Carl Honoré / Translated from the German by Ralph Freedman / 325-page paperback / 5.38" x 8.5" / ISBN 978-1-58988-024-5 / Publication Date: May 2005 "Absolutely stunning."—Times Literary Supplement "This book made my life more interesting."—Christoph Niemann (as described in the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design) The Discovery of Slowness—a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's masterpiece—recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Slow and deliberate from boyhood, Franklin appeared destined to be a misfit. But he escaped from the ever-expanding world of industry and Empire to the sea's silent landscape, where the univ