Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

Nicholas A. Basbanes

656 pages 2001

3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In 1995 Nicholas Basbanes introduced a resonant phrase to describe the obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books, a condition more commonly known as bibliomania, one he christened in his book A Gent...

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