Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with southern cultures such as Italy’s are reversed in his native country, ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that ...

The author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps returns with a “sparkling” exploration of the four cardinal directions­­—north, south, east and west—and their central role in the ...

It’s a topsy-turvy world. We’re just rotating on it. This at any rate is the conclusion of “Four Points of the Compass,” a cultural history from Jerry Brotton, an author and University of ...

Four Points of the Compass is full of geographical, political and cultural lore. History of compass points a wide-ranging joy to navigate – Winnipeg Free Press June 15, 2025 ...

It’s a topsy-turvy world. We’re just rotating on it. This at any rate is the conclusion of “Four Points of the Compass,” a cultural history from Jerry Brotton, an author and University of ...