This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World - Hardcoverby Andrea Di Robilant (Author) 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