num_pages: 151
description: In sixteenth-century Venice, a monk struggles to create the perfect map of the world--without ever leaving his cell. Travelers bring him tales of faraway, fantastic people and places; the map takes on many dimensions and grows. Slowly, Fra Mauro's vision begins to embrace not only continents and kingdoms but something just as wondrous and real: a vast interior landscape of beliefs, aspirations, and dreams.
language: English
title: A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
titlecomplete: A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
genres: Fiction, Maps, Philosophy, Cartography, Historical, Italy, Historical Fiction, Travel, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 535
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: ALS Gold Medal
publisher: Grand Central Publishing