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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew Battles
ISBN
0786268506 / 9780786268504 / 0-7862-6850-6
Publisher Thorndike Pr Language English Edition Hardcover List price $28.95 › Find signed collectible books: 'Library: An Unquiet History' |
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. Encyclopedic in breadth and novelistic in its telling, Library is a slim history that speaks volumes. [via]