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Toby Lester

Toby Lester is a contributing editor to and has written extensively for The Atlantic. His work has also been featured on the radio show This American Life. A former Peace Corps volunteer and United Nations observer, he lives in the Boston area with his wife and three daughters. He is an invited research scholar at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library.

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The Fourth Part of the World
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 By: Toby Lester
This edition: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback