The Mapmaker's Daughter

Venice, 1520. In the shadow of the Doge's Palace, where merchants trade in silk and secrets, Isabella Selwyn practices the most dangerous deception of the Renaissance: she is a woman who dares to map the world.

Bound by corsets and convention, Isabella disguises herself as "Isacco," a talented male apprentice, creating nautical charts for explorers seeking fortune in distant lands. Her maps possess an otherworldly precision; they reveal islands that don't exist on any other chart, routes tha...