EAN: 9781788169332

ALLEN ROLAND THE NOTEBOOK

A 'Best Book of the Year 2023' in the New Statesman  Spectator and Waterstones    'Excellent'
Ian Samson  TLS    'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of
jotting things down' Guardian    'Surprisingly revealing' The Sunday Times   We see notebooks
everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our
lives  and why are they such powerful tools for creativity? And how can using a notebook help
you change the way you think?  In this wide-ranging story  Roland Allen reveals all the
answers. Ranging from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our
greatest thinkers  he follows a trail of dazzling ideas  revealing how the notebook became our
most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of
artists like Leonardo and Frida Kahlo  scientists from Isaac Newton to Marie Curie  and writers
from Chaucer to Henry James. We watch Darwin developing his theory of evolution in tiny
pocketbooks  see Agatha Christie plotting a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books  and
learn how Bruce Chatwin unwittingly inspired the creation of the Moleskine.  On the way we meet
a host of cooks  kings  sailors  fishermen  musicians  engineers  politicians  adventurers and
mathematicians  who all used their notebooks as a space for thinking and to shape the modern
world.

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