The catalogue of shipwrecked books / Edward Wilson-Lee.
Material type: SoundPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2018Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 audio discs (approximately 660 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781508280491
- 1508280495
- 9781508280507
- 1508280509
- Catalog of shipwrecked books
- Subtitle on container: Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | 010.92 W749 | Available | 33111009497849 |
Title from disc label.
Read by Richard Trinder.
Compact discs.
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.
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.