Welcome to Litsy!

Someone gave me this book ten years ago and I‘ve just now gotten around to reading it. It‘s a collection of essays exploring the why and how behind mankind‘s long desire to simply know what‘s beyond the horizon and also for treasure. It mixes narrative of the age of discovery and medieval legend with anthropology and the author‘s own musings on why we we‘re still fascinated by these stories. I‘d call it light history of a sort.