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![Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRWs5MkFRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a7d0564e16ea9be1ed2c78f48a7e0d902b6398f0/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/41MgEqTQNuS.jpeg)
289 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: B082LRGRP7
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: John Murray
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Description
An 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 preserva...
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![Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRWs5MkFRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a7d0564e16ea9be1ed2c78f48a7e0d902b6398f0/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/41MgEqTQNuS.jpeg)
289 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: B082LRGRP7
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: John Murray
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Description
An 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 preserva...