The Fourth Part of the World : The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

The Fourth Part of the World : The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

Toby Lester

Språken
FörlagFree Press
ISBN9781439160428

“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 consist