The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library Genre & Category:History & Geography not the mathematicians and scientists

not the mathematicians and scientists

a hero who once thwarted a gunman

The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522—documented in his poignant Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books—set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project

and empathy

Leila powerfully points to the possibility of overcoming poverty and unleashing an extraordinary force for good

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library Genre & Category:History & Geography not the mathematicians and scientistsNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, New Statesman, History Today, The Spectator Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world. Stephen GreenblattA captivating adventureFor lovers of history, Wilson Lee offers a thrill on almost every pageMagnificent. The New York Times Book ReviewThe impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the quest by Christopher Columbuss illegitimate son to create