Library - Couverture rigide

Battles, M

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0434008877 ISBN 13 : 9780434008872

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian at Harvard and narrator, gives a colourful tour through the stacks from ancient times to the 21st century. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but also controlled, inspired, shaped, hidden and obliterated knowledge. Battle's spirited journey takes the reader from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the beginnings of the World Wide Web. Along the way, Battles explores not only how libraries are built but how they are destroyed, from the neglect and decay of Alexandria (and myth of its burning), to the burnings of scrolls in ancient China, to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish conquerors - and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe by the Nazis and by Bosnian Serbs in the Balkans.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Battles works at the Houghton Library, the rare books library at Harvard University, and is a contributor to Harper's. He ilves in Jamaica n, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0434008877
• ISBN 13: 9780434008872
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible