Mr Selden&Apos S Map Of China: The Spice Trade A Lost Chart South China Sea Timothy Brook Profile Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

In 1659 A Vast And Unusual Map Of China Arrived The Bodleian Library Oxford It Was Bequeathed By John Selden London Business Lawyer Political Activist Former Convict Mp City\ S First Orientalist Scholar Largely Ignored Remained Bowels Until Called Up An Inquisitive Reader When Timothy Brook Saw 2009 He Realised That \ Puzzle Had To Be Solved\ : Exceptional Artefact So Unsettlingly Modern-Looking Could Almost Forgery But Genuine What Has Tell Us Is Astonishing Shows Not Cut Off From World Participant Embryonic Networks Global Trade Fuelled Rise Europe - Which Now Power China\ Ascent Raises As Many Question Answers: How Did Acquire It? Where Come From? Who Re-Imagined This Way? Most Importantly Can About At Time? Like Cartographic Detective Provided Answers Including Surprising Last-Minute Revelation Authorship Gobi Desert Philippines Java Tibet Into Itself Uses (Actually Schematic Representation Relation Astrological Heaven) Tease Out Varied Elements Defined Crucial Period History Σελίδες: 256 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm