Bibliograph

Burning the books, a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge, Richard Ovenden

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Burning the books, a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge, Richard Ovenden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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photographsillustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Burning the books

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Richard Ovenden

Sub title

a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge

Summary

"The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction―and surprising survival―of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia."--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Cracked clay under the mounds -- A pyre and papyrus -- When books were dog cheap -- An ark to save learning -- Spoil of the conqueror -- How to disobey Kafka -- The twice-burned library -- The paper brigade -- To be burned unread -- Sarajevo Mon Amour -- Flames of empire -- An obsession with archives -- The digital deluge -- Paradise lost? -- Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives

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