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As the number of popular non-fiction titles grows, the authors on the hunt for new-book material often use a '''concept''' approach, trying to come up with an USP for a new title. This uniqueness is often achieved by adopting an obscure subject, or an unusual perspective from which to view a popular theme.
Toby Lester's subject is far from obscure: quite possibly the most famous drawing in the world, Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. It does, however, offer an unusual lens through which to see much more than ''the untold story of the world's most famous drawing''. Lester uses this lens to focus an enquiry that ranges far and wide. From Augustus' building of the Empire to the visions of the medieval mystics and the emergence of the Renaissance humanism, ''Da Vinci's Ghost'' is a tour de force, positively bursting with information presented in this eruditely conversational tone that is now de rigueur in popular non-fiction accounts.
