{"product_id":"9781682192825","title":"Tesla","description":"Author: Michael Almereyda\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781682192825\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: OR Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Jan 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 248\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeslajolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations  vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art  enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46839794892958,"sku":"ADS-9781682192825","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781682192825.jpg?v=1778826791","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781682192825","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}