The Map That Changed the World

The Map That Changed the World

by Simon Winchester

First published 2001 · 352 pages · about 6 hours to read

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In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, The Judge, that ominous representation of 19th century hubris, says, "Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent... He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's…
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