Lestringant, Frank "Mapping the Renaissance World"

Frank Lestringant. Translated by David Fausett. Mapping the Renaissance World.

Berkeley CA, 1994. Cloth. 

This volume focuses on the work of 16th century traveler and map-maker, Andre Thevet. Accused of blasphemous audacity and mocked for his encyclopedic aims, the figure of Thevet is a wonderful example of the way knowledge of the world was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance.