Going Coastal, Inc.    New Books Update March/06 Issue 1
The Marvel of Maps by Francesca Fiorani
Yale Univercity Press, Cloth: $60.00
This book is the first to discuss in detail the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals - the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Art historian Francesca Fiorani presents an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, and offers fresh insights into the Medici and Papal Courts.
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 The Map Book by Peter Barber
Walker Books Press, Cloth: $39.95
Peter Barber, the head of Map Collections at the British Library, has compiled an historic and lavish atlas, charting the progress of civilization. 175 featured maps span ten millennia—from the famed prehistoric Bedolina (Italy) incision in rock around 8000 B.C. to the most modern, digitally enhanced rendering. Leading map historians provided accompanying texts—making this volume a treasure for all history and art lovers.


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The Friar and the Cipher by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
Broadway Books, Trade: $14.95
Discovered in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is over two hundred pages long, written in code and illustrated with pictures of plants, astrological diagrams, and naked women. Theories as to its' provenance and meaning remain unproven. The authors take us on an odyssey through centuries, history, languages, cryptography, science and magic in order explain this bibliophilic mystery.

        
The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
Dutton Books, Harcover $24.95
Thomas Young (1773-1829) corrected Newton's theory of light, explained physiology of the human eye, and helped decipher the Rosetta Stone. He also gave a series of lectures at the Royal Institute covering virtually all of known science. This biography, the first in over fifty years, explains the highlights of Young's polymathic career and brings to life one of the most fascinating "anti-heros" of the Enlightenment.
  
 The Great Mortality by John Kelly
Harper Perennial, Trade: $14.95
“Much has changed since the 1340s, the decade the Black Death arrived in Europe, but not human nature. The plague generation wrote about their experience with a directness and urgency that still retains the power to move, astonish, and haunt.” Kelly incorporates primary sources into a superb scholarship in history of the Middle Ages.
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