Timothy Brook

Mr Selden's Map of China

The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

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Produktbeschreibung

Forensic history at its best: an ancient map reveals the origins of world trade, and surprising twists in China's history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781781250396
• ISBN-10: 1781250391
• Artikelnr.: 41596895

Autorenporträt

Timothy Brook

Rezensionen

The quest is fascinating and picaresque, a sort of cartographical Tristram Shandy with a sure-handed narrator steering us from Ming dynasty China to pre-Civil War Oxford to the Spice Islands of South-East Asia. Rana Mitter Sunday Telegraph