Discovery of New Worlds

Here is a book that remembers what history truly is: the story of people who refused to accept the edges of the map. From the crumbling empire that swallowed Rome to the thunder of horses on crusade, from the ash-covered streets of Pompeii frozen in their final moment to Gutenberg's press quietly remaking civilization, this is the age when the world contracted and expanded all at once. M. B. Synge traces the boldest impulses of humanity across a thousand years: the longing to see what lies beyond the horizon, to understand what God wants, to claim what others have built. The men who sailed uncharted seas did not know if they would return. They went anyway. This is their story, rendered with the urgency it deserves, for readers who have ever looked at a blank space on a map and wondered.