Ebook: The catalogue of shipwrecked books: Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library

"Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." —Stephen Greenblatt

"A captivating adventure...For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page...Magnificent." —The New York Times Book Review

Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator *

The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the quest by Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son to create the greatest library in the world—"a perfectly pitched poetic drama" (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through sixteenth-century Europe.
In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son.

At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando...