Tracks on the Ocean

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize ''Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot'' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of 1492''Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply erudite and constantly mind-expanding'' Philip Ball, author of How Life WorksFrom their first appearance on Renaissance maps, linear tracks representi...