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 tim...

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