The World Of Columbus And Sons

Author : Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982111402
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher 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, 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; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively 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: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.

Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book the World of Columbus and Sons written by Genevieve Foster and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The World of Columbus and Sons written by Genevieve Foster and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of people and events during the Renaissance and age of European exploration of the Americas.

Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher : Beautiful Feet Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781893103054
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's World written by Genevieve Foster and published by Beautiful Feet Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical survey of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas during the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, examining people, places, and events which gave color to the world of the nineteenth century.

Author : Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher : Yearling Books
ISBN 13 : 9780440407010
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Columbus written by Ingri D'Aulaire and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the life and adventures of Christopher Columbus follows the Genoa-born seaman as he sails across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the treasures of the East. Reissue.

Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698115805
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? written by Jean Fritz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Jean Fritz takes us on a historic tour of Christopher Colubus! "In a simple, short biography of Columbus she has been extraordinarily successful in extracting the essence of the man."—The Horn Book Christopher Columbus thought he knew where he was going. He had planned to be the first to cross the ocean and reach the rich lands of the Indies. And when he returned to Spain, he insisted to everyone who would listen that he'd succeeded. But that wasn't exactly true. Little did Columbus know that his mistake would come to be known as America! "Fritz's unconventional look at the great explorer who accidently discovered the New World reveals the navigator's obstinate as well as his visionary side."—School Library Journal

Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893103306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The World of William Penn written by Genevieve Foster and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster explores the wide sphere of the humble Quaker, William Penn. His commitment to religious freedom became a cornerstone of American democracy.

Author : Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300256205
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hernando Colon's New World of Books written by Jose Maria Perez Fernandez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal––that is, to bring together copies of every book, on every subject and in every language. Pérez Fernández and Wilson-Lee situate Hernando’s projects within the rapidly changing landscape of early modern knowledge, providing a concise history of the collection of information and the origins of public libraries, examining the challenges he faced and the solutions he devised. The two authors combine “meticulous research with deep and original thought,” shedding light on the history of libraries and the organization of knowledge. The result is an essential reference text for scholars of the early modern period, and for anyone interested in the expansion and dissemination of information and knowledge.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512801968
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The World of William Penn written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Augustus Caesar's World written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallels comparative religious, social, and political forces which characterized and influenced the Roman Empire during the period just preceding and just following the birth of Christ. Examines contemporary events in Greece, Israel, Egypt, China, India, and Persia as well as Rome.