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This Earthly Globe - A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (Hardcover)
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This Earthly Globe - A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (Hardcover)
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DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously
authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to
Europeans was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi
(Journeys and Navigations). This was closely followed by two further
volumes that, when taken together, constituted the largest release of
geographical data in history, and could well be considered the birth of
modern geography.
The editor of these volumes was a little-known public servant in the
Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio. He gathered a vast array
of both popular and closely guarded narratives, from the journals of
Marco Polo to detailed reports from the Muslim scholar and diplomat Leo
Africanus.
In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to life the man
who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving
diplomats and spies, to democratise knowledge and show how the world
was much larger than anyone previously imagined.
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