Dark Archives A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom, Justis Bolding

eAudio - 2020

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy?the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, innocents, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians te...st rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon,...

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Recorded Books, Inc.
Language
English
Main Authors
Megan Rosenbloom, Justis Bolding
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MP3 audiobook
File Size201 GB
Parts7
ISBN9781980096023
Release Date10/20/2020
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size201 GB
ISBN9781980096023
Release Date10/20/2020