Four Points of the Compass The Unexpected History of Direction.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps , this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia North, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal directions to orientate themselves and to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational...