It wouldn’t be the Stanfords Travel Writers Festival without a cartographic segment, luckily the historian and author Philip Parker is on hand to talk to Julia Wheeler about his book History of World Trade in Maps. Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and ivory to their 21st-century equivalents trading high-tech electronic equipment from the Far East. Through maps Philip gives a visual representation of the history of World Commerce and tells the extraordinary story of the merchants, adventurers, middle-men and monarchs who bought, sold, explored and fought in search of profit and power. Maps are all works of art, witnesses to history, and have a fascinating story to tell.

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