The Secret Seekers
Autor Vanessa Braganzaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 2027
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780063411234
ISBN-10: 0063411237
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
ISBN-10: 0063411237
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Notă biografică
Vanessa Braganza is a literary historian and book detective who holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her historical discoveries have been profiled in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Times, and she currently writes for Smithsonian, TLS and the Boston Globe. In 2022, Braganza was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and a Bowdoin Prize recipient. The Secret Seekers is her first book.
Recenzii
This exquisite book - part-history, part-detective story - is as fascinating for the hidden histories it uncovers as for the process of conducting the research. From the forgotten corners of Hampton Court to the treasure trove of libraries, archives and architectural ruins, it takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery that keeps them guessing from the first page to the last
Never have the silences of history been shattered to such luminous effect. With a care and a joyous erudition that borders on the sorcerous, Braganza deciphers the coded messages of some of the most vital women of the past to deliver the smartest most exciting feminist history in generations. Equal parts rescue mission, detective story and revindication, this groundbreaking enchantment of a book should be in everyone's hands
Step aside, Robert Langdon, the real book detective is on the case! Chronicling adventures from solving a 500-year-old mystery to hunting the secrets of a library ghost to cracking the ciphers of a tragic queen, this book is learned, charming, and mischievous
I would follow Vanessa Braganza anywhere - into every archive, every overgrown garden, every battered manuscript. She reads a royal marriage in crisis from a pendant design and an illicit love affair from letters tangled on a book cover. The Secret Seekers leaves you certain that the women of Renaissance England were talking to us all along, in codes history had forgotten how to read. Braganza makes the past surrender its secrets
THE SECRET SEEKERS is a thrilling and brilliantly written story of bookish mystery and startling discovery, engaging, learned, suspenseful, enthralling. Vanessa Braganza is a book cryptographer of the highest order, and The Secret Seekers is a sensational debut
Murder! Treason! Star crossed lovers! Royal intrigue! THE SECRET SEEKERS is a page turning romp through the secrets of Tudor and Elizabethan England. Braganza, a charming, real-life codebreaking book detective, gets at the heart of human nature's age-old impulses to create, make love, and make war. Her quixotic journey brings to life the beating heart of the forgotten, trailblazing women of yesteryear who speak to us today through the ciphers and coded messages they left behind
An extraordinary tale of Renaissance women who hid their stories in the secret language of ciphers, and waited some 500 years for Braganza to discover them: this book takes us through the patient, persevering, and often thrilling work of a literary detective in search of the truth
Never have the silences of history been shattered to such luminous effect. With a care and a joyous erudition that borders on the sorcerous, Braganza deciphers the coded messages of some of the most vital women of the past to deliver the smartest most exciting feminist history in generations. Equal parts rescue mission, detective story and revindication, this groundbreaking enchantment of a book should be in everyone's hands
Step aside, Robert Langdon, the real book detective is on the case! Chronicling adventures from solving a 500-year-old mystery to hunting the secrets of a library ghost to cracking the ciphers of a tragic queen, this book is learned, charming, and mischievous
I would follow Vanessa Braganza anywhere - into every archive, every overgrown garden, every battered manuscript. She reads a royal marriage in crisis from a pendant design and an illicit love affair from letters tangled on a book cover. The Secret Seekers leaves you certain that the women of Renaissance England were talking to us all along, in codes history had forgotten how to read. Braganza makes the past surrender its secrets
THE SECRET SEEKERS is a thrilling and brilliantly written story of bookish mystery and startling discovery, engaging, learned, suspenseful, enthralling. Vanessa Braganza is a book cryptographer of the highest order, and The Secret Seekers is a sensational debut
Murder! Treason! Star crossed lovers! Royal intrigue! THE SECRET SEEKERS is a page turning romp through the secrets of Tudor and Elizabethan England. Braganza, a charming, real-life codebreaking book detective, gets at the heart of human nature's age-old impulses to create, make love, and make war. Her quixotic journey brings to life the beating heart of the forgotten, trailblazing women of yesteryear who speak to us today through the ciphers and coded messages they left behind
An extraordinary tale of Renaissance women who hid their stories in the secret language of ciphers, and waited some 500 years for Braganza to discover them: this book takes us through the patient, persevering, and often thrilling work of a literary detective in search of the truth