Terry lee mall biography of christopher columbus
Life of christopher columbus...
The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm catalog
"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.
Terry lee mall biography of christopher columbus
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 , the 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, the first ever search engine for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe.
Hernando restlessly and