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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Y iddish Books
por Lansky, Aaron
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- ISBN 10
- 1565125134
- ISBN 13
- 9781565125131
- Livreiro
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Tokyo, Japan
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Sobre este item
Algonquin Books, 2005. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important." --Library Journal, starred review "A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations." --The New York Post "What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque romp, a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world." --The Boston Globe "Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book." --The Sunday Oregonian As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history." In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country collecting books. Introducing us to a dazzling array of writers, he shows us how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the old world and the future--and how the written word can unite everyone who believes in the power of great literature.A Library Journal Best Book A Massachusetts Book Award Winner in Nonfiction An ALA Notable Book.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- RWARE0000045323
- Título
- Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Y iddish Books
- Autor
- Lansky, Aaron
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 1565125134
- ISBN 13
- 9781565125131
- Editorial
- Algonquin Books
- Local de publicação
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- 2005
- Catálogos de livreiros
- General Non-Fiction;
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Infinity Books Japan
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Infinity Books Japan
Membro de Biblio desde 2006
Tokyo
Sobre Infinity Books Japan
Infinity Books Japan,was founded in the year 2002, we pride ourselves in being there for our customers, we deal in, used, rare, out of print and first editions.
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