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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
‘A very few times in the course of a reader's life a book appears that shatters one's assumptions about how and why things came to pass. A History of Water is one such book. A mind-blowing achievement’ ALBERTO MANGUEL It is the 30th of January 1574 and the king’s archivist lies dead – burned or strangle ...Show more
A History of Water - Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them - an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, ...Show more
Biodiversity and Climate Change - Transforming the Biosphere by Thomas E. Lovejoy; Lee Hannah; Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources ur ...Show more
Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent #65533;migr#65533;s, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare t ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
At the Peak of the Age of Exploration, thirteen-year-old Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, sailed with his father on his fourth and final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended disastrously in bloody mutiny and shipwreck. After his father's death, Hernando sought to co ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
At the Peak of the Age of Exploration, thirteen-year-old Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, sailed with his father on his fourth and final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended disastrously in bloody mutiny and shipwreck. After his father's death, Hernando sought to ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Young Colombus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing - and of the son of Christopher Colombus who created it. This is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christ ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Category: History
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 tru ...Show more
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