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A first UK edition hardback in very good condition for its age. Bump to head of book spine. Age tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.
SYNOPSIS: “It is the strangest road trip of them all – two men, a four thousand mile journey and the most celebrated brain of the 20th century.
As the pathologist on duty the night Einstein died in 1955, it was Thomas Harvey’s job to carry out the autopsy. Who’s to say what inspired Harvey – greed or beneficence, pettiness or awe – but in an instance that was to shape his life forever, he cut the brain out of Einstein’s head and removed it for himself.
In 1997 aged eighty-four, he decided the brain should be taken to Berkeley, to Albert Einstein’s granddaughter Evelyn. It fell to the writer Michael Paterniti to drive him the four thousand miles from New Jersey to California…”
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