The catalogue of shipwrecked books /
Wilson-Lee, Edward,
The catalogue of shipwrecked books / Catalog of shipwrecked books Subtitle on container: Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library Edward Wilson-Lee. - Unabridged. - 9 audio discs (approximately 660 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 110000
Title from disc label. Compact discs.
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.
Read by Richard Trinder.
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.
9781508280491 1508280495 9781508280507 1508280509
9781508280491
30cwk9 Blackstone Publishing 10cwk9 Blackstone Publishing
Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539.
Biblioteca Colombina.
Book collectors--Spain--Biography.
Historians--Spain--Biography.
Bibliographers--Spain--Biography.
Geographers--Spain--Biography.
Audiobooks.
Biographies.
The catalogue of shipwrecked books / Catalog of shipwrecked books Subtitle on container: Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library Edward Wilson-Lee. - Unabridged. - 9 audio discs (approximately 660 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 110000
Title from disc label. Compact discs.
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.
Read by Richard Trinder.
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.
9781508280491 1508280495 9781508280507 1508280509
9781508280491
30cwk9 Blackstone Publishing 10cwk9 Blackstone Publishing
Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539.
Biblioteca Colombina.
Book collectors--Spain--Biography.
Historians--Spain--Biography.
Bibliographers--Spain--Biography.
Geographers--Spain--Biography.
Audiobooks.
Biographies.