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040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a070.509421CAR
100			_aCarpenter, Humphrey _eAuthor
245			_aThe Seven lives of John Murray : _bThe Story of a publishing dynasty _cHumphrey Carpenter.
300			_axiv, 370 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFrom its birth in 1768, when the first John Murray of Edinburgh came down to London, each of the publishing house's seven leaders has made his own contribution to the dissemination of literature and the understanding of the world. One became Byron's publisher and confidante; another began the revolutionary series of Murray handbooks which transformed world travel in the early years of the railways; a third broke controversial new ground with the publication of Queen Victoria's letters. So the tradition progressed to the end of the 20th century, and a list of literary giants including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Osbert Lancaster, Francoise Sagan, and British Poet Laureate, John Betjeman. Written in Carpenter's rollicking and iconoclastic style, it is an affectionate and vibrant account of the longest-surviving publishing house in the world.
650			_aPublishing.
650			_aPublishing Documentary media.
650			_aBookselling and publishing.
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