[PDF.28nb] The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America

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

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 | #269769 in Books |  2010-07-06 |  2010-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.44 x1.20 x5.50l,.97 | File type: PDF | 496 pages

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||93 of 96 people found the following review helpful.| Enticing|By Chris Thompson|Simon Winchester's review above does not give this book justice, although I must say that Lester's ability to spin a great story around an arcane subject may rival Winchester's. To me this book is about so much more than the naming of America on a map - it is really about the process of discovery and enlightenment and the pitfalls and pratfalls alo|.com | Exclusive: Simon Winchester s The Fourth Part of the World

Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and later became an award-winning journalist, and author of more than a dozen book

“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.

For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America   |  Toby Lester. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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