308 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cracked clay under the mounds -- A pyre and papyrus -- When books were dog cheap -- An ark to save learning -- Spoil of the conqueror -- How to disobey Kafka -- The twice-burned library -- The paper brigade -- To be burned unread -- Sarajevo Mon Amour -- Flames of empire -- An obsession with archives -- The digital deluge -- Paradise lost? -- Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives.
Summary
"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."--Amazon.com.
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