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Hernando Colon's New World of Books
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colón This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects …
Hernando Colon's New World of Books
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colón This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects …
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
"Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a …
Shakespeare in Swahililand
Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which …
Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet
An exploration of Shakespeare as a global poet Shakespeare in Swahililand tells the unexpected literary history of Shakespeare's influence in East Africa. Beginning with …
Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following an introduction to the theories …
History of Water
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 ââ?¬Ë?Exhilarating and whip-smartââ?¬â?¢ THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create the greatest library in the world is …
History of Water
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMESFrom award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true …
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, …
Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following an introduction to the theories …
Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to …