James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling
Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel,
Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are
Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy that began with
Cooking with Fernet Branca, and the autobiographical
Playing With Water. Born and educated in England, he has lived in the Philippines and Italy and now makes his home in Austria.
An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony...
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