bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
A good example of optimism is when you plan to write and publish a 6-volume work - and Volume 1 is published when you're 75!
I'm thinking of J. G. A. Pocock (born in 1924) and his Barbarism and Religion, his 6-volume historian's meditation on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788).
Pocock was born in London, but spent most of his childhood in New Zealand. He emigrated to the United States in 1966, when he was 42, and had various teaching positions, the last being Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1974-1994).
And, yes, he finished all 6 volumes - Volume 6 was published in 2015, when he was 91.
He just turned 98 this March 7 and, as far as I know, is still going strong.
Amazing.
I'm thinking of J. G. A. Pocock (born in 1924) and his Barbarism and Religion, his 6-volume historian's meditation on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788).
Pocock was born in London, but spent most of his childhood in New Zealand. He emigrated to the United States in 1966, when he was 42, and had various teaching positions, the last being Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1974-1994).
And, yes, he finished all 6 volumes - Volume 6 was published in 2015, when he was 91.
He just turned 98 this March 7 and, as far as I know, is still going strong.
Amazing.