Dimensions
139 x 204 x 38mm
Peter Doherty's A Light History of Hot Air is a wide-ranging meditation on the theme of heat and heating.
From the hot air of language to the hot air that gives us steam trains, the Red Baron, fridges and illumination, this book will delight readers who enjoyed Bill Bryson's A Short History of Almost Everything.
Part boys own adventure and part memoir, the book does nevertheless remind us that hot air – as in global warming – can have serious repercussions.
