This Earthly Globe

From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” — The Washington Post ), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans, with startling wood-cut maps of Africa, India and Indonesia, was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journ