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320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781529378771
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: John Murray (Publishers)/Hachette UK Ltd.
Publication date: 31 August 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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320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781529378771
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: John Murray (Publishers)/Hachette UK Ltd.
Publication date: 31 August 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...