The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

by Edward Wilson-Lee

Book Overview

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

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography

The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create the greatest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982111399
• ISBN13: 9781982111397
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"