THE EMPRESS OF FORGOTTEN MAPS: Charting an Empire No One Dared to Name

Paris, 1842. The finest cartographer in France has never signed her own name.Marguerite Voss has spent eleven years producing the survey work that made her father famous. She corrects the errors of senior geographers who do not know she exists, drafts the maps that imperial expeditions depend upon, and places her work in Henri Voss's out-tray every Tuesday so that it can be presented to the Societ...