Four Points of the Compass : The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton

Four Points of the Compass : The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry BrottonA sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and exploration and are central to the imaginative, moral and political geography of virtually every

and with The Unheard they are right at the top of their game

Described in loving detail and with gentle humour

the red snake and the yellow fish

To round it all off

Underlying all of Van Zandt's various incarnations was a devotion to preserving the centrality of the arts

she begins to wonder if she has more than one reason to be interested in life at Sea Glass Cove…

It was in the following weeks that his seizures first began

brought him to her remote mountain home

'Don't judge this book by its cover

This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which

all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world

with an intuitive sense for period and place