Four Points of the Compass
the unexpected history of direction
$25.21
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
Navigating the World: A Directional Journey
North, south, east, and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are.
In Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. He reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why early Islam revered the south; why t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141999562 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014199956X |
| Author: | Jerry Brotton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Jerry Brotton
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize), This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, and the bestselling and award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into twenty languages.
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