Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith

Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo

Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, island...

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