Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell Stocked at AH please welcome to the stage

please welcome to the stage a facsimile of a stage direction from the 1623 First Folio King Lear - the first appearance of the Fool

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Also included is an informative introduction to Shakespeare's wit

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Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell Stocked at AH please welcome to the stageFrom a Siberian sealskin map to Grayson Perry's tapestry map via Narnia, Middle Earth and a twelfth century Arabic map of the Mediterranean, this book is a cartographical treasure trove covering over a thousand years of map making, both fictional and non fictional. Each map is paired with a narrative explaining how it came to be made, and the significance of what it shows. Paperback, 144 pages. Measures 19. 6 x 19. 6 cm.