Length13h 26m
About this audiobook
For over a century, the world’s greatest minds have tried and failed to decipher a mysterious manuscript. Its strange writing, curious illustrations and uncertain origins have made it one of scholarship’s most enduring enigmas.
Now, a computational linguist at Yale has discovered something that could change everything. The answer may not lie in the manuscript itself, but in a locked writing desk—and the private notebooks of the man who brought it to the world.
Born in the Russian Empire, imprisoned and exiled to Siberia, he escaped to build a new life as one of Europe’s most respected rare-book dealers. But behind his extraordinary career lies a secret that could overturn everything scholars believe.
Was he a brilliant forger, an accidental discoverer, or a man who found something he could never explain?
Some mysteries survive because nobody can solve them. Others survive because someone wants them to.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1a memoir
2Ivory F. Wild
3The name is not the thing.
4Before — New Haven, 2024
5Prologue — New Haven, 2025
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6Chapter One — Telšiai, 1873
7Chapter Two — Suwałki, 1879–1882
8Interlude — Boston, 2024
9Chapter Three — Moscow, 1882–1885
10Chapter Four — The Warsaw Citadel, 1885–1887
11Chapter Five — The March East, and Tunka, 1887–1890
12Interlude — Amsterdam, three weeks after Boston
13Chapter Six — London, 1890–1905
14Interlude — Amsterdam, one week before Boston
15Chapter Seven — Florence, 1903–1911
16Chapter Eight — London, 1909–1912
17Chapter Nine — Castel Gandolfo and London, 1912
18Interlude — Boston, 2am
19Chapter Ten — America, 1914–1921
20Chapter Eleven — New York, 1921–1930
21Chapter Twelve — The Missing Pages
22Chapter Thirteen — The World Looks
23Coda — Amsterdam, the following October
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