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Footsteps by Richard Holmes is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Footsteps about?

Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume Sidetracks. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called 'Footsteps' and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exploration ever published. Sleeping rough, he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisian riots of the 1960s, he dives back in time to the terrors of Wordsworth and of Mary Wollstonecraft marooned in Revolutionary Paris and then into the strange tortured worlds of Gérard de Nerval. Wandering through Italy, he stalks Shelley and his band of Romantic idealists to Casa Magni on the Gulf of Spezia. Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print...

Who reads Footsteps?

Author

Richard Holmes

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

1984

Language

EN

Category

religious

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, Travel General & Miscellaneous

Rating

4.21 / 5 (179 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14