Alexander Thorsson is a frustrated ex-football player and a cashiered Air Force officer, now living life out of a suitcase as an airline pilot. He always though

Charting the exploration of an unknown world—our own—with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

It seems to be a tenet of the human condition to perceive “others” as “different” and potentially hostile. In nearly all societies stereotypes are devel