This is a biographical novel. While based on fact, the diary is fiction. A preface by Irving Stone, known for his historical novels, describes a biographical novel as consisting "of the intermeshing of thousands of tiny ideas, all of which lead to the ultimate resolution of story and character." The book, a class project by the Mordecai Historians of California, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, is well researched and well written. It is a limited edition of 500 copies. 401 pages View More...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe's information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.After Columbus's death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father's campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing pr... View More...
