A review by resolutereader
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes

2.0

Holmes' earlier book, The Age of Wonder was a masterful history of the era when science and literature were holding out for a new world, where technology might free human kind. It explored the scientists and their circles striving to understand the cosmos. Falling Upwards covers a similar subject and period, but sadly I found it didn't really hold together as a book and came across as a series of anecdotes not worthy of the book's subtitle, however fascinating they might be.

Complete review: http://resolutereader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/richard-holmes-falling-upwards-how-we.html