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The Fourth Part of the World will be released on July 06, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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The Fourth Part of the World is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Fourth Part of the World is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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The Fourth Part of the World will be released on November 03, 2009 in Hardcover
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The Fourth Part of the WorldThe Fourth Part of the World is an epic adventure story about the creation of the map that introduced Europe to America and ushered in the New World.Read More
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Boston Globe, July 13, 2010
...by Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann in 1507. Its more than just a map, said author and historian Toby Lester, whose book The Fourth Part of the World explores the history of humanitys worldview and the age of exploration. While bringing...
Boston Globe, July 12, 2010
...by Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann in 1507. Its more than just a map, said author and historian Toby Lester, whose book The Fourth Part of the World explores the history of humanitys worldview and the age of exploration. While bringing...
Cleveland Live, July 9, 2010
...but it's enjoyable to see how many ways she can survive. The Fourth Part of the World Toby Lester (Free Press (398 pp.) $16.99 The inspiration for Toby Lester's lively historical narrative was the Library of Congress' 2003, $10 million purchase of the...
TradingMarkets, March 9, 2010
...support from the bookseller. Barbara Johnson's short-story collection More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial) and Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World (Free Press), took second place honors, each receiving $5,000. C. E. Morgan's All...
Belmont Citizen-Herald, March 8, 2010
...Toby Lester first heard the name Martin Waldseemüller in 2003 when the Library of Congress paid a record-setting $10 million for the map of America he drew nearly five centuries earlier...
PR inside, March 3, 2010
...collection More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial), set in the less-trafficked parts of New Orleans, and Toby Lester’s fascinating cartographic history, The Fourth Part of the World (Free Press), took second place honors, each receiving...
Individual.com, February 2, 2010
...(BusinessWire) In Nonfiction section, publisher for Toby Lester's book should read (Free Press) sted (Twelve). The corrected release reads: BARNES & NOBLE ANNOUNCES THE FINALISTS FOR THE 2009 DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS...
Centre Daily Times, December 31, 2009
...the Ends of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name,' by Toby Lester (Free Press). Europe's discovery of the rest of the world during the Renaissance is combined with a history of mapmaking in one of this year's most captivating...
Express Night Out, December 28, 2009
...supposedly doodled by Spivet, that allow you a peek into his brain. "Fourth Part of the World" by Toby Lester NATHAN MARTIN (Editorial Aide) "Columbine" by Dave Cullen: The most complete look behind those bloody school doors in a tender portrait that is...
BBC Caribbean, December 24, 2009
...one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun. Almost exactly 500 years ago, in 1507, Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias...
Suite101.com, December 11, 2009
...1507AD. The book The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map by Toby Lester, covers the creation of the Waldseemuller Map and European discoveries of the world from Roman times. The book on the cartoon character Tintin is a...
Cleveland Live, December 10, 2009
...America's "birth certificate," the highest sum ever paid for a historical document, inspired Atlantic Monthly writer Toby Lester to compile (the verb is apt) one of those offbeat, hybrid, labor-of-love books that comes along every so often and charms...
Dallas Morning News, December 6, 2009
...purchase of America's 'birth certificate,' the highest sum ever paid for a historical document, inspired Atlantic writer Toby Lester to compile (the verb is apt) one of those offbeat, hybrid, labor-of-love books that comes along every so often and charms...
Rocky Mount Telegram, December 4, 2009
...der of work Book Reviewer The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester; Free Press; 462 pages; $30. On permanent display in the Library of Congress is a map printed in 1507. Bought for $10 million after being discovered at the turn...
Boston Globe, November 1, 2009
...of I.F. Stone, at 6:30 p.m., First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge . . . Toby Lester discusses The Fourth Part of the World, at 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store . . . Thomas Graboys discusses Life in the Balance, at 7 p.m., Brookline...
BBC, October 28, 2009
...one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun. Almost exactly 500 years ago, in 1507, Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias...
Times Online, October 23, 2009
...magical name, inscribed in capitals on a strange tract of blank space in the far west: AMERICA. As Toby Lester tells in this boundlessly engaging book, this map was not just the first to give America a name, it was the very first to show it as a continent...
The Map Room, January 21, 2010
...Toby Lester, author of The Fourth Part of the World , the very fine book about the Waldseemüller Map that I reviewed last month , is speaking this Sunday at the Hingham Public...
The Map Room, December 29, 2009
...on the Radio ; The Map as Art ; Even More Book Reviews .) The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester Lester’s adroit and fascinating book puts the 1507 Waldseemüller map in its historical and cultural context. I reviewed it earlier this month....
James Fallows, November 11, 2009
..."presents," and we can all get along.) One worth considering: The Fourth Part of the World , by Toby Lester. It's a great, absorbing, richly illustrated, makes-you-feel-smarter-and-better-for-having-read-it chronicle of the race to map what became the...
The Map Room, October 31, 2009
...a brief item on the book version of Frank Jacobs’s Strange Maps , and the Washington Post reviews Toby Lester’s book on the Waldseemüller map, The Fourth Part of the World . Previously: The Fourth Part of the World ; Strange Maps, the Book, Coming...
The Map Room, October 26, 2009
...— would have come and gone with the 2007 quincentennial of the map, but I’d forgotten about 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 , which...
PhiloBiblos, October 11, 2009
...will seek to compete with OCLC by providing quality copy-cataloging records to libraries. - In the Boston Globe , Toby Lester writes on the Waldseemüller map of 1507 and its links to Copernicus' heliocentric theory. - The ACRL board has approved new "...
