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By : Caspar Henderson
Book Synopsis :
We live in a world that is known, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder, Caspar Henderson argues, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity and gives us hope for the future. That?s the power of wonder, and that?s what we should aim to cultivate in our lives. But what are the wonders of the modern world? Henderson?s brilliant exploration borrows from the form of one of the oldest and most widely known sources of wonder: maps. Large, detailed mappae mundi invited people in medieval Europe to vividly imagine places and possibilities they had never seen before: manticores with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the stinging tail of a scorpion; tribes of one-eyed men who fought griffins for diamonds; and fearsome Scythian warriors who drank the blood of their enemies from their skulls. As outlandish as these maps and the stories that went with them sound to us today, Henderson .
Book Detail :
Tittle : A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
Author : Caspar Henderson
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022629191X
ISBN-13 : 9780226291918
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