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Author: Alexander Vietts Blake
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Author: Alexander Vietts Blake
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780062856166
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: John Gray Bell
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
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Author: William Brough (bookseller.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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