This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea Di Robilant
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Andrea Di Robilant

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Andrea Di Robilant

272 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes - over two million words - that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a curre...

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