Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook

Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea

Timothy Brook

256 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single ...

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