Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2000. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good with price clipping. First Edition/First Printing. Author is grandson of author Evelyn Waugh. Calendars, eons, nanoseconds, milena - no instrument or measurement is overlooked in this work, which looks at man's attempt to understand the enigma of time.

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Title: Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, New York
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0786707674
ISBN 13: 9780786707676
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Examines the mysteries of time and chronicles the human struggle to measure, utilize, understand, and explain it, from the era of homo erectus to modern theorists like Stephen Hawkings.

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Alexander Waugh was formerly the chief opera critic at the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard.

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