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A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
A Mapmaker's Dream The Meditations of Fra Mauro Cartographer to the Court of Venice Author:James Cowan In sixteenth-century Venice, a monk struggles to create the perfect map of the world -- without ever leaving his cell. Travelers bring him tales of faraway, fantastic people and places; the map takes on many dimensions and grows. Slowly, Fra Mauro's vision begins to embrace not only continents and kingdoms but something just as w... more »ondrous and real: a vast interior landscape of beliefs, aspirations, and dreams . . .« less