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Amerigo Vespucci: Explorer of South America and the West Indies

By Heather Moore Niver

Book information

Publisher
Inc, The Rosen Publishing Group
Year
2016
ISBN
2015050279, 9781477787953, 9781477787922, 9781477787939
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (15142361 bytes)
Series
Spotlight On Explorers and Colonization
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-23 07:22:57
History; Juvenile Nonfiction; JNF025080

Description

Amerigo Vespucci, the presumed namesake of the continents of North America and South America, is a controversial figure in the history of European exploration. The number of voyages he took to the New World is in dispute, but among his accomplishments, he found a rough method of calculating longitude, made notes on the indigenous peoples he encountered, and published theories proving that Columbus had not landed in India. This volume separates the fact from fiction, the man from the myth, and sets about to responsibly examine the remaining open questions at the heart of this history of New World exploration.

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