Book description
There are 30 volumes in this edition, which is copyrighted 1977.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Encyclopaedia Britannica (29 Volume Set) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Borges loved this 29-volume “book” and consulted it with near religious fascination.
Through all the volumes flows the colonial mind of the British Empire. Its desire to gather “all knowledge” and present it with an index.
What comes forth now are the fascinating, individual voices of the writers (whose work has been used to build Wikipedia) sounding out of the void.
The thing is, they’re all different. Some are clear and calm, some youthful and manic, others stodgy, snobbish. Maps of the States in 1906 have almost no highways, only topography.
A full-page plate, under “Cats,” where no cats appear,…
From Blair's list on opening strange worlds.
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