A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
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ISBN: 0446673382 / Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, December 1997
A fifteenth-century Venetian monk attempts to incorporate hundreds of stories of exotic journeys into a map depicting all of Creation
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A monk who is confined to his quarters strives to make a map of the world based on traveler's tales of distant lands and exotic places, and he comprehends not only nations and countries, but internal journeys of hopes and dreams. Reprint.
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