This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
About the Author
Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and on the age of discovery. His previous books include André Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).
Features
This is an original and engaging account of the ways in which the discovery of the new world altered the world-view of Europeans during the Renaissance
The author is one of the best young historians in France today.
