# The Discovery of Slowness

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- Book: [The Discovery Of Slowness](https://www.bookquiver.com/sten-nadolny/the-discovery-of-slowness) ([The Discovery Of Slowness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sten-nadolny/the-discovery-of-slowness.md))
- Authors: [Sten Nadolny](https://www.bookquiver.com/sten-nadolny)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4026-584-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1997-07-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development...