Toby Lester is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and Boston and the author of Da Vinci's Ghost and The Fourth Part of the World.
Toby Lester
Soaring Ambitions
Early hot-air balloonists ascended to previously unimaginable heights, stirring humanity’s sense of perspective and possibility
by Toby Lester | Thursday, September 05, 2013
Armchair Travelers
The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity