Saturday 23 March 2013

The Fourth Part of the World

The Fourth Part of the World
Author: Toby Lester
Edition: 1ST
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1416535314



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


"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemAller world map of 1507. Download 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 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth-until 1507, that is, when Martin WaldseemAller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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