Travis Elborough

There be dragons

A globe placing Japan in the area of Mexico prompted Columbus to cross the Atlantic, according to Thomas Reinertsen Berg’s fascinating Theatre of the World

  • Theatre of the World: The Maps that Made History

    Thomas Reinertsen Berg, translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough

    Hodder& Stoughton, pp. 367

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