Kingsley begins with a Norse ship sinking under sea-worms off the coast of Vinland and moves on to Cyrus of Persia, the nature of ancient civilisation, and a series of scholars of the Renaissance: the Huguenot naturalist Rondelet, the anatomist Vesalius, the alchemist-physician Paracelsus and the Scottish humanist George Buchanan.
Vivid lectures by the novelist of Westward Ho!, who also served as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. Download the free EPUB.