Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

After Columbus's death in 1506, his 18-year-old son Hernando sought to surpass his father's campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world - by building a library that would collect everything ever printed. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively, amassing a huge collection of books in his quest to gather a library of universal knowledge that would include "All books, in all languages, and on all subjects." In this thrilling and adventure-packed tale, this account offers a vivid picture of Europe becoming modern on the heels of the printing press and a race against time for Hernando's vision of near-impossible perfection.

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