Saturday, November 9th, 2013
In 1811 the Fra Mauro Map of the World was shipped from the island of San Michele di Murano across the Venetian lagoon to the Marciana Library. Two hundred years later I found myself on a vaporetto...
Monday, November 4th, 2013
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is using cutting-edge technology to entice a new generation of visitors to an exhibition of some of the world’s oldest and rarest maps and cartographic treasures.