Name: The Migrants. A Memoir with Manuscripts
SKU: 65861208
Price: 637.23 MXN
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Author: Christopher de Hamel
ISBN: 9780241670125

portada The Migrants. A Memoir with Manuscripts

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Allen Lane

Autor

Christopher de Hamel

Año

2026

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24x15.6x2.8 cm

ISBN13

9780241670125

The Migrants. A Memoir with Manuscripts

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Christopher de Hamel is one of the world’s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family moved when he was four. This book magically evokes a childhood at vast distance from Europe, recalling his thrill and wonder in first encountering medieval manuscripts in libraries there and the realization that they too are migrants far from home. The Migrants explores the immense journeys of books and people. It is a tale of colonization and the migration of culture – of motives and idealism, triumphs and disasters – bringing us face-to-face with history. We meet the colonial governor on his paradise island, the shipwrecked accountant, the nonagenarian who cut up manuscripts, the magnate who unknowingly bought Becket’s Boethius and the early settler who inscribed his Book of Hours in the Maori language in 1842. We travel with the author today back to where these manuscripts began their own lives, through France and Poland and medieval England, discovering their first owners and following the longest journeys on earth. This is a coming-of-age saga with extraordinary twists, crossing many hundreds of years and tens of thousands of miles, recounted with passion, humour and a lifetime’s reflection.