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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
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From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author ofJust My Type, comesthe wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
""A brilliant book about knowledge itself.” -Deirdre Mask, author of The Address Book
“Garfield's witty history captures the obsessive, quixotic and sometimes error-filled quests of those-from Pliny the Elder in the first century A.D. to Wikipedia...