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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
Feb 24, 2013reader0118 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Guided to a surprising degree by a Church increasingly global in its outlook and imperial in its ambitions the efforts fed into a collective quest for knowledge, power, and wealth the likes of which had never before been seen. That quest was at once mystical, rapacious, evangelical, self-centered, grand, inspiring, and often delusional- and nothing charts its full course better than the Waldseemuller map of 1507.