The Blazing World with Michael Bravo On the Road with Penguin Classics

Margaret Cavendish beyond the North Pole. The polar researcher Dr Michael Bravo Joins Henry in Cambridge to discuss The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, the maverick Duchess of Newcastle. Blending fantasy, philosophy and seventeenth-century science, they visit the Polar Museum, the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library. They meet Dr Joshua Nall, an expert on the history of science, and Dr Emily Dourish, deputy keeper of rare books.
 
Penguin Classics editions of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780140433722.html
https://apple.co/3IAMNY5
 
Penguin audiobook of The Blazing World, read by Abigail Thaw
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780141993393.html
https://apple.co/3u6gpIK
 
Michael Bravo
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/
 
North Pole by Michael Bravo
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789140088
 
The Polar Museum
https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/
 
The Whipple Museum
https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/
 
The Cambridge University Library Rare Books Department
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/rare-books
 
Joshua Nall
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/nall
 
Emily Dourish
https://twitter.com/emilydourish?lang=en

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