Product Description

In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. This title tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the United States itself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #165113 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

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Review
A shot of the purest oxygen (Simon Winchester )

It fizzes (John Gapper FT )

Entertaining ... clear-sighted and intelligent (The New Yorker )

[Johnson is] an infectiously exciting writer ... The Invention of Air is delightful to read (Salon )

Packed with excellent stuff (Russell Davies )

Johnson paints Priestley not as a man of the past but precisely the sort of figure the world needs more than ever (New York Post )

About the Author
Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You (described as a 'must read' by Mark Thompson, head of the BBC), The Ghost Map, Mind Wide Open, Emergence and Interface Culture. His writing appeared in the Guardian, the New Yorker, Nation and Harper's, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the co-creator of several influential web sites: FEED, Plastic, and Outside.in. He has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three sons.