Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook

Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea

Timothy Brook

256 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it rema...

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