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The Migrants
- A Memoir with Manuscripts
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Migrants af Christopher de Hamel, 9780241670125
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780241670125
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0241670128
Udg. Dato:
9 apr 2026
Størrelse i cm:
24,0 x 15,6 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
9 apr 2026
Forfatter(e):

The Migrants

- A Memoir with Manuscripts
Engelsk
Hardback 2026
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Christopher de Hamel is one of the world’s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. This book magically recalls his childhood discovery of manuscripts growing up in remote New Zealand – an evocation of the thrill and wonder of that first, life-changing encounter – and about the history of empire and colonisation at the world’s last frontier. The Migrants explores the meeting and creation of cultures, the necessity of collecting and the nature of authenticity, the importance of history in the last nation ever settled by humans, and, above all, the migration of people, art and heritage. We meet the colonial governor on his paradise island, the shipwrecked accountant, the evangelical nonagenarian who cut up manuscripts, the drug-addled magnate who bought Becket’s Boethius, and the mischievous settler who inscribed his Book of Hours in the Maori language in 1842. We travel with the author now back to where the manuscripts were made, from Besançon in eastern France to Poland and Canterbury, revealing their first owners and following the longest journeys ever undertaken by people or books. 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.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780241670125
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0241670128
Udg. Dato:
9 apr 2026
Størrelse i cm:
24,0 x 15,6 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
9 apr 2026
Forfatter(e):
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