About Books, February 13, 2010

Toby Lester's book, "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," is a geographical and intellectual history of the discovery of the Americas. The story centers on the Waldseemuller map, now owned by the Library of Congress, which was lost for centuries. It is the first map, dated 1507, to use the name America.

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