“Four Points of the Compass” is a slender volume, and while its contents at times feel cherry-picked, it brims with interesting information. For instance, Mr. Brotton, ...

Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton Allen Lane £20, 208 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf ...

“Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction” by Jerry Brotton. (Atlantic Monthly) “There is no reason why north should necessarily sit at the top of modern world maps ...

"Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" by Jerry Brotton. (Atlantic Monthly) “There is no reason why north should necessarily sit at the top of modern world maps,” he ...

In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction. By Ian Volner Ian Volner writes about architecture, design and ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with southern cultures such as Italy’s are reversed in his native ...

As long as you stay within this zone, the needle on your compass should still be able to register Earth’s magnetic field and point you toward that spot in Canada.