The Book That Wouldn't Burn - The Library Trilogy Peter Hopkirk This is the first biography

This is the first biography of Hypatia to integrate all aspects of her life

including a section exploring the huge global changes since its inception in 1991

as one of the few foreigners ever to be granted Cambodian citizenship she paints a vivid picture of the country and her life

Rickards draws on historical case studies

I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island

The Book That Wouldn't Burn - The Library Trilogy Peter Hopkirk This is the first biographyAll books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. But the greatest story can reach the stars . . . Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. Livira has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where no one goes and nightmares stalk. The world has