The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map - Couverture rigide

Lester, Toby

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861978030 ISBN 13 : 9781861978035

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

In 1901, Josef Fischer accidentally discovered the Waldseemüller Map of 1507 - the first map to depict the world largely as we know it today. In 2003, the Library of Congress bought the Waldseemüller Map for $10 million, in the most expensive acquisition of a single document in American history. The Fourth Part of the World tells the epic story for the first time of the voyagers and thinkers who created this remarkable map and ushered in the New World.

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À propos de l'auteur

Toby Lester is a contributing editor to The Atlantic and the author of The Fourth Part of the World (2009), which tells the story of the map that gave America its name. Picked as one of the best books of the year by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and American Heritage, among other publications, the book received second prize in the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Program, and was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize. Lester has written extensively forThe Atlantic on subjects that include the sociology of new religions, the attempt to reconstruct ancient Greek music, the revisionist scholarship of the Qur'an, the struggle to change alphabets in Azerbaijan, and the chance harmonies of everyday sounds. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and three daughters.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861978030
• ISBN 13: 9781861978035
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible