Book  The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

READ NOW : https://kuncungtampansekali.blogspot.com/?free=B07HKP66PB

In the tradition of Stephen Greenblatt&#8217s The Swerve and Dava Sobel&#8217s Galileo&#8217s Daughter, a vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus&#8217 son to create the greatest library in the world - &#8220a perfectly pitched poetic drama&#8221 (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through 16th-century Europe.The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus&#8217 illegitimate son.At the peak of the Age of Exploration, while his father sailed across the ocean to explore the boundaries of the known world, Hernando Col&#243n sought to surpass Columbus&#8217 achievements by building a library that would encompass the world and include &#8220all books, in all languages and on all

New tracks tagged #Books: