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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307269850
From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a
charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who
explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and
became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among
geographers in the following centuries.
This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s
serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice
in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolò Zen: the text and its
fascinating nautical map re-created the travels of two of the
author’s ancestors, brothers who explored the North Atlantic in the
1380s and 1390s. Di Robilant set out to discover why later, in the
nineteenth century, the Zens’ account came under attack as one of
the greatest frauds in geographical history. Was their map—and even
their journey—partially or perhaps entirely faked?
In Irresistible North the author follows the Zens’ route from the
Faeroes to Shetland to Iceland and Greenland, greeted by characters
who help unravel the enigmas in the Zens’ account. The medieval
world comes to life as di Robilant guides us through a landscape
enlivened by the ghosts of power-hungry earls and bishops of the
old Norwegian realm and magical tales of hot springs and smoking
mountains. In this rich telling—an original work of history and a
travel book in one—the magnetism of the north draws us in as
powerfully as it drew the Zen brothers more than six centuries
ago.
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