As long as north, south, east and west have existed, they have not just directed the world but defined it. In Four Points of the Compass, historian Jerry Brotton goes in search of their origins to ...

To do so, you simply draw an imaginary line from the top point of the crescent, past the bottom point of the crescent, and ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes ... literature and geopolitics to ...

This question touches on an important moral that should be addressed first - how do we orient our North, South, East, and West compass points in space. First, it’s necessary to understand that ...

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 country, where the north is more commonly ...