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A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
A Mapmaker's Dream The Meditations of Fra Mauro Cartographer to the Court of Venice
Author: James Cowan
In sixteenth-century Venice, a monk struggles to create the perfect map of the world -- without ever leaving his cell.  Travelers bring him tales of faraway, fantastic people and places; the map takes on many dimensions and grows.  Slowly, Fra Mauro's vision begins to embrace not only continents and kingdoms but something just as w...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780446673389
ISBN-10: 0446673382
Publication Date: 12/1997
Pages: 156
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
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