A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) is a novel by Australian writer James Cowan.

[1] The novel is subtitled: "The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice".

[5] Sally James, writing in The Australian Jewish News Noted: "Throughout A Mapmaker’s Dream, which reads like a diary, Mauro reveals that his mission was not so much to depict where people had travelled to but who they were and what they thought.

A type of exploration not yet known to the ‘civilised’ world...Mauro offers a highly interpretative account of the many travellers who approach him.

Believing himself to be at the mercy of other men's observations, Mauro remained at the monastery, lacking the courage to leave and see the origins of the tales that captivated him.