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Fourth part of the world : an astonishing epic of global discovery, imperial ambition, and the birth of America / Toby Lester.

Author Lester, Toby.

ImprintNew York : Free Press, 2010, c2009.

Descriptionxxiv, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Abstract:A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation.

ISBN:1416535349 (pbk.)

ISBN:9781416535348 (pbk.)

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Author
Lester, Toby.
Subject: Personal Name
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519.
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Subject: Topical Term
World maps -- History.
Cartography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History -- To 1500.
Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500.
Travelers' writings, European.
Subject: Geographic Name
America -- Maps -- History.
America -- Name.