03472cam a2200745 4500 530543172 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640090217 1640090215 B075L61R78 Amazon 62585857-36e6-4647-b532-e10579d6f9aa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 675374 675374 675374 3509057 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kells, Stuart. The Library [Libby eBook] : A Catalogue of Wonders. Catapult, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1448kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1059kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. biographies and memoirs. gifts for history buffs. Cultural anthropology. historical nonfiction. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. autobiography books. social engineering. anthropology books. history buff gifts. historical books. autobiographies. human evolution. sociology books. World History. Autobiography. history books. science books. history gifts. anthropology. memoir books. homosapiens. biographies. Biography. Evolution. Sociology. Science. Memoirs. History. memoir. HTML:<b>"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." —<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.<br /> <br /> Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets, and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern–day “Library Tourists.” Kells discovered that all the world’s libraries are connected in beautiful and... Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=62585857-36e6-4647-b532-e10579d6f9aa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=62585857-36e6-4647-b532-e10579d6f9aa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=62585857-36e6-4647-b532-e10579d6f9aa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)