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Burning the Books

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford recounts the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia.


Author:

  • Richard Ovenden

Narrator:

  • Simon Slater

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 9 h 49 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • History
  • Great occurrences and events
  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Society
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  • Social science

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