The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library / Edward Wilson-Lee.
"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 continue—and surpass—his 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: ballads, erotica, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522—documented in his poignant Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books—set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection."-- Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982111397
- ISBN: 1982111399
- Physical Description: 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539. Biblioteca Colombina. Book collectors > Spain > Biography. Historians > Spain > Biography. Bibliographers > Spain > Biography. Geographers > Spain > Biography. |
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