The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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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 the heart of
16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This
is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christopher
Columbus' bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his
father's achievements by creating a universal library. His father
sailed across the ocean to explore the known boundaries of the
world for the glory of God, Spain and himself. His son Hernando
sought instead to harness the vast powers of the new printing
presses to assemble the world's knowledge in one place, his library
in Seville.Hernando was one of the first and greatest visionaries
of the print age, someone who saw how the scale of available
information would entirely change the landscape of thought and
society. His was an immensely eventual life. As a youth, he spent
years travelling in the New World, and spent one living with his
father in a shipwreck off Jamaica.He created a dictionary and a
geographical encyclopaedia of Spain, helped to create the first
modern maps of the world, spent time in almost every major European
capital, and associated with many of the great people of his day,
from Ferdinand and Isabel to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Durer. He
wrote the first biography of his father, almost single-handedly
creating the legend of Columbus that held sway for many hundreds of
years, and was highly influential in crafting how Europe saw the
world his father reached in 1492. He also amassed the largest
collection of printed images and of printed music of the age,
started what was perhaps Europe's first botanical garden, and
created by far the greatest private library Europe had ever seen,
dwarfing with its 15,000 books every other library of the
day.Edward Wilson-Lee has written the first major modern biography
of Hernando - and the first of any kind available in English. In a
work of dazzling scholarship, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
tells an enthralling tale of the age of print and exploration, a
story with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of
information revolution and Globalisation.
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William Collins ,
Edward Wilson-Lee
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William Collins,
Edward Wilson-Lee
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