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'Steven Marcuson, a map store owner in Western Australia, has leveraged his obsession with a historical curiosity into a page-turning thriller. The object in question – Heinrich Bunting's 1581 map of the world – is an odd piece of cartography even for its time: Madagascar is missing, for instance, and the boot of Italy twists the wrong way around. ...'
