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Library: An Unquiet History
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ISBN13: 9780393325645
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish--and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.
Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.
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