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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
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
56.99 AUD
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
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Young Colombus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
59.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
24.99 AUD
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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