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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son Hernando, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
"The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary true story of Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, who spent his life attempting to build a universal library containing every book ever printed. This historical non-fiction work details Hernando’s monumental intellectual enterprise, his global acquisition network, and the fascinating history of the first modern library. Introduction to Hernando Colón and His Vision In the early decades of the sixteenth century, as the printing press revolutionized human communication and flooded Europe with an unprecedented volume of texts, one man concei..."
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