- Published: 29 October 2009
- ISBN: 9780141044910
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
The Invention of Air
An experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery
- Published: 29 October 2009
- ISBN: 9780141044910
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
A shot of the purest oxygen
Simon Winchester
It fizzes
John Gapper
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