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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books (inbunden, eng)
';Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.' Stephen Greenblatt
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';Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.' Stephen Greenblatt
';A captivating adventureFor lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every pageMagnificent.' The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator *
The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the quest by Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son to create the greatest library in the world';a perfectly pitched poetic drama' (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through sixteenth-century Europe.
In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Coln, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son.
At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with 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, the eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continueand surpasshis 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, the first ever search engine for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe.
Hernando restlessly 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 as ephemeral trash: song sheets, erotica, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables.
The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522documented in his poignant Catalogue of Shipwrecked Booksset off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection.
Edward Wilson-Lee's account of Hernando's life is a testimony to the beautiful madness of booklovers, a plunge into sixteenth-century Europe's information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own attempts to bring order to the world today.
';A captivating adventureFor lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every pageMagnificent.' The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator *
The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the quest by Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son to create the greatest library in the world';a perfectly pitched poetic drama' (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through sixteenth-century Europe.
In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Coln, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son.
At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with 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, the eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continueand surpasshis 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, the first ever search engine for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe.
Hernando restlessly 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 as ephemeral trash: song sheets, erotica, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables.
The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522documented in his poignant Catalogue of Shipwrecked Booksset off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection.
Edward Wilson-Lee's account of Hernando's life is a testimony to the beautiful madness of booklovers, a plunge into sixteenth-century Europe's information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own attempts to bring order to the world today.
| Format | Inbunden |
| Omfång | 416 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Scribner |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2019-03-12 |
| ISBN | 9781982111397 |
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- Inbunden, 416, Engelska, Scribner, 2019-03-12, 9781982111397
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 416
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Scribner
- Utgivningsdatum 2019-03-12
- ISBN 9781982111397