The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe

$40.00 at The Getty Museum.

Larisa Grollemond, Kelin Michael, Elizabeth Morrison, and Joshua O’Driscoll This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world.From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious mixture of truth, legend, and outright superstition. One…