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A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
A Novel
by James Cowan
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A monk in 16th Century Venice creates a map of the world, based on the tales of travellers he receives in his monastery. Fra Mauro, official cartographer, interprets and speculates on the world, turning map making into a voyage of human imagination. By the author of Letters from the Wild Side.
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Courts and courtiers, Cartographers, Fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, visionary & metaphysicalPeople
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A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice: A Novel
December 11, 2007, Shambhala
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in English
1590305205 9781590305201
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"FOR SOME TIME I have wanted to relate a circumstance that has been happening to me in recent years."
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