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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
This Earthly Globe A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Author: Andrea Di Robilant
The story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography. In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans, with startling wood-cut maps of Africa, India and Indonesia, was published in Venice under the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307597076
ISBN-10: 0307597075
Publication Date: 6/18/2024
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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