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Scanned image of the book's front cover Alexander Stille. 
The Future of the Past: The Loss of Knowledge in the Age of Information.
London: Picador, 2003 (previously issued in hardback, 2002).
ISBN 0330375350;
ISBN-13: 9780330375351.

Paperback, perfect bound.
129x196x23mm.
xxi,341pp. 
English.
A little wear to the covers and creasing to the spine, otherwise overall good condition. 

This item £6.50 
[Publisher's price $15.00]
244g. 

No medieval emphasis. Contents: The Sphinx - virtual & real; The culture of the copy & the disappearance of China's past; Looting history; The Ganges' next life; Saving species in Madagascar; The man who remembers; Oral poetry, writing, & tape cassettes in Somalia; Living with a dead language; Return of the vanished library; Vatican Library mystery [on Leonard Boyle]; Are we losing our memory, or, The museum of obsolete technology; Writing & the creation of the past. 

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