What Alberto Manguel has given us is his personal reponse to books and reading in the form of an anthology comprising mythology, anecdote, theology, history and autobiography... I finished }A History of Reading{ with a sense of gratitude to have shared this journey through time in the company of a mind so lively, knowledgeable and sympathetic P.D.
James, }Sunday Times{. This is the first non-academic, single volume account of the subject. 140 b/w intregrated illus.
What Alberto Manguel has given us is his personal reponse to books and reading in the form of an anthology comprising mythology, anecdote, theology, history and autobiography... I finished }A History of Reading{ with a sense of gratitude to have shared this journey through time in the company of a mind so lively, knowledgeable and sympathetic P.D.
James, }Sunday Times{. This is the first non-academic, single volume account of the subject. 140 b/w intregrated illus.
