Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

By
Christopher de Hamel
Christopher de Hamel
2016 ‱ 632 pages

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72 books

Nonfiction

PaulF
Paul
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Kill The Messengers
God's Bankers
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
The Mismeasure of Man
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

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774 books

Paper Book

Pierke
Pierke
The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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1,840 books

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Pierke
Pierke
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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1,113 books

Prologue

Pierke
Pierke
C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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45 books

Resting

Pierke
Pierke
The Debatable Land
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion

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80 books

Art

Pierke
Pierke
The Monuments Men
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and Millais
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
The art of acquiring

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46 books

Personal Library

Spinning-gold
Kathy
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban's War
The tiger in the smoke
The Keeper of Night
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Silverthorn

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9 books

Given Up

Larsas
Larsas
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Atlas Shrugged
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Revolt Against the Modern World
Requiem for a Dream

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305 books

Wish List Non Fiction

Zed
Zed
The Library at Night
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Cale
What's Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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5 books

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