The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America by Toby Lester

The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America

Toby Lester

462 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem ller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For...

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