A Brief History of Encyclopedias: From Pliny to Wikipedia
Author(s): Andrew Brown
Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be.
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Andrew Brown is a translator and former teacher of French literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. He is the author of Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert and Brief Lives: Stendhal (both Hesperus Press).
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- : Hesperus Press Ltd
- : Hesperus Press Ltd
- : 01 October 2010
- : United Kingdom
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- : Andrew Brown
- : Paperback
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