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Four Points of the Compass
  • ISBN: 9780241556870
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Allen Lane
  • Binding: Hardback

Four Points of the Compass

An Unexpected History of Direction

Jerry Brotton
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For millennia, the compass has been at the heart of our travel, navigation and exploration.

In The Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture favours the East; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing North at the top of their maps; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards.



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