Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer by Timothy Brook

Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer

Timothy Brook

240 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single ...

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