Lights On and Away We Go
Keith Thomas: Happy Thoughts, 20 May 2021
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
by Ritchie Robertson.
Allen Lane, 984 pp., £40, November 2020,978 0 241 00482 1 Show More
by Ritchie Robertson.
Allen Lane, 984 pp., £40, November 2020,
“... and the development of the steam engine by James Watt. There were also the achievements of James Cook, the son of a Yorkshire labourer, who, after surveying Newfoundland between 1763 and 1767, made three voyages to the Pacific, charting the coasts of New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and the west coast of North America. ... ”