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

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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
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the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name
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by Toby Lester
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eng
Summary
Discusses the 1507 Waldseemüller map - the first to designate America - which is in the collections of and displayed by the Library of Congress. Traces the overlapping voyages, some geographical and some intellectual, that brought about the map’s revolutionary depiction of the world. 2009
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AC
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other
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Narrator/Performer: Peter Jay Fernandez
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specialized

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