{"product_id":"2026200016530-secondhand-edward-lear-the-life-of-a-wanderer","title":"Edward Lear: The Life Of A Wanderer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in Victorian cultural life were as richly contradictory as Edward Lear — celebrated painter, tireless traveller, and the genius behind some of the most beloved nonsense verse in the English language. Vivien Noakes' Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer chronicles the remarkable life of this singular artist, tracing his journey from a sickly, overlooked child in a large London family to a restless wanderer whose sketching expeditions took him across Italy, Greece, Albania, and the Middle East, all while his whimsical limericks and illustrated alphabets delighted generations of readers.\n\nNoakes presents a biography of rare depth and sensitivity, illuminating the profound loneliness and longing for belonging that animated Lear's entire existence — a man who found his truest self in perpetual motion, yet ached for the domestic peace that forever eluded him. Drawing on extensive archival research, she illustrates how Lear's twin vocations as landscape painter and nonsense poet were not contradictions but two expressions of the same restless, acute sensibility. Written with scholarly rigour and genuine affection, this definitive life of Lear leaves the reader wondering: in all his wandering, did he ever truly arrive?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309671293147,"sku":"2026200016530-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d6f26890-64c7-4ccd-8765-84b124203344.png?v=1789454995","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016530-secondhand-edward-lear-the-life-of-a-wanderer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}