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Mr Selden´s Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Timothy Brook
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Description for Mr Selden´s Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 266.
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is ... Read more
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781250396
SKU
V9781781250396
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Ref
99-99
About Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook was Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford when he first saw the Selden Map, and is now professor of history at the University of British Columbia. The author of eight books on Chinese history, his most widely read book is Vermeer's Hat [9781846681127].
Reviews for Mr Selden´s Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
The quest is fascinating and picaresque, a sort of cartographical Tristram Shandy with a sure-handed narrator steering us from Ming dynasty China to pre-Civil War Oxford to the Spice Islands of South-East Asia.
Rana Mitter
Sunday Telegraph
The great charm of this book lies not only in its illustrative, erudite detail but in the serendipity that regularly ... Read more
Rana Mitter
Sunday Telegraph
The great charm of this book lies not only in its illustrative, erudite detail but in the serendipity that regularly ... Read more