Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden

Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard OvendenAn unforgettable 3,000 year old journey from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself. 'A wonderful book, full of good stories and burning with passion' SUNDAY TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Compelling, fascinating and rewarding'

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Midsummer Eve 1670

Against the backdrop and power of this great ocean

Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook

Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I

as a real woman in modern times

compiled in the 1920s by the botanist Professor Elsie Arbour for her niece

where he watches raw sewage being pumped into the shallows of the Irish Sea

But when a tragic accident ruptures the family

but his visions and legacy lived on

the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history

featuring every second year of Bod's life