the World of Columbus and Sons
Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1982111402
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 :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1948
Category : History, Modern
ISBN :
Author : Genevieve Foster
Publisher : Beautiful Feet Books, Inc.
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9781893103054
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
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : America
ISBN : 9780440407010
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 : Pam Conrad
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language arts (Primary)
ISBN :
Book summary and author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension discussion questions, graphic organizers and writing activities, effective management ideas, reproducibles for the book Pedro's journal by Pam Conrad.
Author : Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300256205
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 :
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1512801968
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.