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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Lester, Toby.
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Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
World maps -- History.
Cartography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History -- To 1500.
Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500.
Travelers' writings, European.
America -- Maps -- History.
America -- Name.
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The fourth part of t...
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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.
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Lester, Toby.
New York, NY : Free Press, 2009.
Subjects
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
World maps -- History.
Cartography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History -- To 1500.
Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500.
Travelers' writings, European.
America -- Maps -- History.
America -- Name.
Electronic Resource
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009001230-b.html
Electronic Resource
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009001230-d.html
Electronic Resource
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0917/2009001230-s.html
ISBN:
9781416535317 :
1416535314
Description:
xii, 462 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Contents:
Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld -- The way of the world -- Appendix. The Stevens-Brown map.
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Summary:
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.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
912.73 Le
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Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
912.73 Le
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Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
912.73 Le
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Waianae Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
912.73 Le
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