The catalogue of shipwrecked books, Edward Wilson-Lee
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The catalogue of shipwrecked books, Edward Wilson-Lee
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The catalogue of shipwrecked books
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Edward Wilson-Lee
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Edward Wilson-Lee tells the story of the first genius of the print age: Hernando Colón, who traveled the world buying countless books to build the world's greatest library
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Prologue: Seville, 12 July 1539 -- The sorcerer's apprentice. The return from Ocean ; In the chamber of clean blood ; The book of prophecies ; Rites of passage ; A knowledge of night -- A language of pictures. Shoes & ships & sealing wax ; The world city ; The architecture of order ; An empire of dictionaries -- An atlas of the world. The devil in the details ; No place like home ; Cutting through ; The library without walls -- Settings things in order. Another Europe and the same ; The King of Nowhere ; Last orders -- Epilogue: Ideas on the shelf
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adult
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Catalog of shipwrecked booksChristopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
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