The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library

Edward Wilson-Lee

The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable - and wholly tru...