Deserving of a place on every community library fiction shelf.

books:


	• A Mapmaker's Dream James Cowan Shambhala, 1996 - 151 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

Deserving of a place on every community library fiction shelf.

The world is more than just a collection of continents and nations, as map maker Fra Mauro discovers in "A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice". Desiring to create the first map of the entire Earth, he sends out a call for information about the strange and far corners of the world. What he gets is more than objective words of what is at every bit of longitude and latitude. Highly recommended for historical fiction enthusiasts and deserving of a place on every community library fiction shelf.

A KEEPER

I truly enjoyed this book and put it on my "Read Again Shelf" (there aren't many there). Fra Mauro is a great character - I wanted to be a fly on the wall to actually see him at his work.

I think several of the reviewers took this book too seriously. I spread out the reading of this over a couple of weeks rather than reading it straight through.

for more information click here

Personal Fave But With a Big Flaw

for more information click here

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4

In sixteenth-century Venice, in an island monastery, a cloistered monk experiences the adventure of a lifetime ? all within the confines of his cell. Part historical fiction, part philosophical mystery, A Mapmaker's Dream tells the story of Fra Mauro and his struggle to realize his life's work: to make a perfect map ? one that represents the full breadth of Creation. News of Mauro's projects attracts explorers, pilgrims, travelers, and merchants, all eager to contribute their accounts of faraway people and places. A she listens to the tales of the strange and fantastic things they've seen, Mauro comes to regard the world as much more than continents and kingdoms: that it is also made up of a vast and equally real interior landscape of beliefs, aspirations, and dreams. Mauro's map grows and takes shape, becoming both more complete and incomprehensible. In the process, the boundaries of Mauro's world are pushed to the extreme, raising questions about the relationship between representation, imagination, and the nature of reality itself.

for more information click here

hot

not?

What's your opinion?

Write a review and share your thoughts!

recommendations

Books for your mind...

dream

The Going to Bed Book: (lap-size edition)
Where the Wild Things Are
Good Night Gorilla Gift Box
The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, ...
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? Book And Plush Set: Book And Plush ...

search for books
mapmaker's dream, dream, mapmaker

Impressum / about us