Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer
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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 artifact
that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.In
2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's
Bodleian Library-where it had first been deposited 350 years
before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither
historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything
like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a
fake-yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659.
The Selden Map, as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving.
Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His
investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work
of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the
court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals
for us the surprising links between an English scholar and
merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the
power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the
same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected
historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.
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