Jerry Brotton is a professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a renowned broadcaster and critic, and author of The Renaissance Bazaar, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, Great Maps, and award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into eleven languages.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia. North, south, east, and west: almost al... SEE MORE