Simon Winchester, "The Man Who Loved China" [Audiobook, Unabridged]
RecordedBooks | 2008 | ISBN: 143610713X | MP3@78 kbps | 9 hrs 12 mins | 310.12 Mb
RecordedBooks | 2008 | ISBN: 143610713X | MP3@78 kbps | 9 hrs 12 mins | 310.12 Mb
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph eedham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking
intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the world's most technologically advanced country. In The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, builds on his success in writing about eccentric British intellectuals. Needham makes a great subject. A Cambridge University polymath who made his youthful mark as a biochemist, he was also a nudist, a performer of English folk dances involving ankle bells and sticks, an accordion player and an active Communist…In retelling Needham's story, Winchester focuses on the inventiveness of the Chinese people, whose creativity once surpassed
that of all other civilizations. If this resourcefulness can be renewed and harnessed in the service of sustainability, then perhaps there is hope not only for China but for the planet.
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