**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Bestselling author Jerry Brotton will discuss his new book, Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction. Trace the history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia. The north, south, east and west directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation, and exploration, and are central to the imaginative, moral, and political geography of virtually every culture in the world. Yet they are far more subjective -- and sometimes contradictory -- than we might realize. Brotton is a professor of English and History at the University of London. A renowned broadcaster, curator, and critic, he is the author of the bestselling, award-winning A History of the World in 12 Maps; The Sultan and the Queen; The Renaissance Bazaar; and The Sale of the Late King’s Goods.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Ashland Library.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

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Join Team Tewksbury! Through November 27th at noon, log the minutes that you read, or read with others, to participate in this community-wide reading challenge versus our next-door neighbors in Wilmington. This challenge is open to all ages and you can track you reading using Beanstack at tewksburypl.beanstack.org or on paper at https://www.tewksburypl.org/books-more/pages/reading-rivals-2024. 

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