--- product_id: 33795187 title: "James GleickTime Travel: A History" brand: "james gleick" price: "272.43 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/33795187-james-gleicktime-travel-a-history store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # James GleickTime Travel: A History **Brand:** james gleick **Price:** 272.43 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** James GleickTime Travel: A History by james gleick - **How much does it cost?** 272.43 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/33795187-james-gleicktime-travel-a-history) ## Best For - james gleick enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted james gleick brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![James GleickTime Travel: A History - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31lJMlO2ZwL.jpg) ![James GleickTime Travel: A History - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51s0p3HVBqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good read but unlike Gleick's earlier work *by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016* As usual, Gleick writes about his subject, the cultural phenomenon of interest in time travel, in a insightful and engaging manner. Fans of Gleick's earlier works, however, should know that this book is very different from its predecessors.In Chaos, Gleick described a branch of science that only graduate physics would encounter and explained it to a wider audience. While his work on information science was more wide-ranging it followed a similar pattern. Gleick's biographies of Feynman and Newton explained their contributions to science to those without a technical background.Time Travel, on the other hand, primarily focuses on answering the interesting question, "Why has time travel so consumed the interest of readers of literature since the late 19th century while before it appeared only in hints and scattered fragments?" To answer this, Gleick engages in a thorough review of time-travel literature but only dips his toes into the actual science of time. In other words, the book is more an exploration of a branch of literature than a non-technical introduction to a branch of science.Even so, Time Travel is a good read and I would recommend the book both to those familiar with Gleick's earlier work and those who have not have not enjoyed that particular pleasure. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Time And Its Fascinating Mysteries *by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2016* As a teenager one of my favorite books was H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. I would have given anything to be able to hop onto that Victorian bicycle-type machine, screw on the levers, and roar off into the distant future or ancient past. As James Gleick makes clear in this fascinating book, countless others have shared my dream, both before and after Wells' own time. Time Travel: A History is not an easy book to categorize: it is part scientific treatise, part philosophical musing, and part literary review. It is, however, an easy book with which to fall in love, one of those special though hard to define volumes that makes its readers want to keep it close at hand, to be dipped into whenever the need for wonder is great.The fourteen chapters in Time Travel: A History run roughly, though not consistently, chronologically from the nineteenth century to the present. Of necessity there are a number of scientific and philosophical discussions on whether or not time travel is possible, how, if it should turn out to be possible it might be accomplished, and whether or not such travel would be advisable (the "kill-your-own-grandfather dilemma," for example.) The concepts here are deep, but accessible to an audience which may not have scientific training but does possess a lively sense of curiosity.I found the segments dealing with literary time travel the most interesting. It is rare to find within one volume discussions ranging from Proust to Wells to Heinlein to Le Guin to Finney to Twain to Sterne to Amis to Eliot to Asimov, but Gleick has accomplished it. As a devotee of J.R.R. Tolkien I kept hoping Gleick would include his unfinished time travel tale The Lost Road, but I suppose there have to be limits, even to time travel! (If that piqued your interest I'd recommend Verlyn Flieger's A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie.)This is a book of less than 350 pages, including a lengthy bibliography which readers looking for more time wanderings will find invaluable, but it holds within it a wealth of knowledge and speculation. Time Travel: A History, is like the rest of James Gleick's work: a book to be read and reread and savored many times. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a dizzying survey of time travel, time, memory, dreams, by way of literature, film, philosophy, and physics *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016* Time Travel: A History, could have been pretty short. After all, to quote physicist Stephen Hawking, "The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future."But instead of restricting himself to an examination of actual time travel, Gleick leads us through a history of the concept of time travel, which is strikingly modern. Before H.G. Wells, authors and their protagonists dreamt of the past and the future, but no one actually traveled there. Then we leap into a deep discussion of time itself, of memory, and of our dreams of the past and the future. We survey literature, from pulpy short stories of the 1920s and 1930s in such august publications as Amazing Stories and Science Wonder Stories to the novels of authors ranging from Jules Verne and Philip K. Dick to Jorge Luis Borges and Virginia Woolf. We swim through the treatment of time travel in film, from Twelve Monkeys to Back to the Future to Midnight in Paris. In time, we jump from Augustine writing in the fourth century to Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control. We hear extensively from physicists and philosophers.This book blew my mind 30 times and I loved it. I highly recommend it, even if you don't have an inherent interest in science fiction.A few bits that I liked: * "Time travel is a fantasy of the modern era." * "Stories are like parasites finding a host. In other words, memes. Arrows of the Zeitgeist." * H.G. Wells: "Literature is revelation," said Wells. "Modern literature is indecorous revelation." * Ursula K. Le Guin: "Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time." * T.S. Eliot: "Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, / Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, / Will not stay still." * Jorge Luis Borges: "El tiempo se bifurca perpetuamente hacia innumerables futuros." * Richard Feynman: "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything." * "We're not very good at understanding causes." * "You can be a time traveler in your own book. If you're impatient, you can skip ahead to the ending." * In Max Beerbohm's 1916 story, "Enoch Soames," a third-rate poet travels one hundred years into the future to see his legacy, which he imagines will be grand. He finds himself listed only as a fictional character in a short story by one Max Beerbohm. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/33795187-james-gleicktime-travel-a-history](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/33795187-james-gleicktime-travel-a-history) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-02*