| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-375) and index. |
| Summary |
"In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbuss 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 Columbuss death in 1506, the eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continueand surpasshis fathers 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: ballads, 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."-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Source |
B&T 05.2019 PARS |
| Subject |
Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539.
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Biblioteca Colombina.
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Book collectors -- Spain -- Biography.
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Historians -- Spain -- Biography.
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Bibliographers -- Spain -- Biography.
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Geographers -- Spain -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
Catalog of shipwrecked books |
| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Wilson-Lee, Edward. Catalogue of shipwrecked books London : William Collins, 2018 (DLC) 2018411632 |
| ISBN |
9781982111397 |
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1982111399 |
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