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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

By
Edward Wilson-Lee
Edward Wilson-Lee
2019

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1,729 books

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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1,841 books

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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1,113 books

Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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114 books

Europe

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Zookeeper's Wife
The Assassination of the Archduke
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913/1914
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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26 books

Book Publishing Reading

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The Diary of a Bookseller
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
The Enchanted Hour
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
Boekenwurmen & ander ongedierte
84, Charing Cross Road