This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Fiction_Gift_Guide easy-to-read (and then pass on

easy-to-read (and then pass on to a friend)

knows that the remedies Rhoda sells can’t cure real sickness

The Foreign Fog

Don’t get too close to anyone

“[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Fiction_Gift_Guide easy-to-read (and then pass onFrom the author of the best selling A Venetian Affair (A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans, with startling wood cut maps of Africa, India and Indonesia, was published in Venice