HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Wilson-Lee, Edward, author.
Subjects
Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539.
Biblioteca Colombina.
Bibliographers -- Spain -- Biography.
Book collectors -- Spain -- Biography.
Historians -- Spain -- Biography.
Geographers -- Spain -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Wilson-Lee, Edward, author.
by title:
The catalogue of shi...
MARC Display
The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library / Edward Wilson-Lee.
by
Wilson-Lee, Edward, author.
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Subjects
Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539.
Biblioteca Colombina.
Bibliographers -- Spain -- Biography.
Book collectors -- Spain -- Biography.
Historians -- Spain -- Biography.
Geographers -- Spain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781982111397 (hardcover) :
1982111399 (hardcover)
Description:
401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
While his father sailed across the ocean to explore the boundaries of the known world, Hernando Colón sought to surpass Columbus's achievements by building a library that would include "all books, in all languages and on all subjects." He spent his life travelling-- first to the New World with his father in 1502, surviving through shipwreck and a bloody mutiny off the coast of Jamaica, and later, throughout Europe, amassing a collection based on the modern conviction that a truly great library should include the kind of material dismissed as ephemeral trash: ballads, pornography, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables. Using an invented system of hieroglyphs he meticulously catalogued every item in his library, devising the first ever search engine for his rich profusion of books and images and music. Wilson-Lee tells of the life and times of this first genius of the print age. -- adapted from Amazon.com info
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Molokai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mountain View P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colin Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
North Kohala Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
010.92 Colon Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.