The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Author: Edward Wilson-Lee

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Published: 2018

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Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator * "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." —Stephen Greenblatt The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create the greatest library in the world—"a perfectly pitched poetic drama" (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through sixteenth-century Europe.In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with 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, the eighteen-year-old...