Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden

320 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia.Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times...

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