THE MAPMAKER'S HERESY: One Woman's Quest to Redraw The Known World

The Mapmaker's Heresy: One Woman's Quest to Redraw the Known World

For three centuries, women shaped the maps the world navigated by and received no credit for it.

In this sweeping work of narrative history, Sienna Voss traces the hidden lives of women whose geographic knowledge built empires, corrected official surveys, and in some cases outpaced the very institutions that refused to acknowledge them.

From the drafting rooms of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, where women revised the celebrated...