The Fourth Part of the World

The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Making of History's Greatest Map by Toby Lester


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The scope of this book was a lot broader than I expected. I thought it was going to be more about a specific map, but the story of the Waldseemuller map was really just a bookend to a pretty full history of cartography and exploration. Well researched and in-depth, possibly a little more so than I was looking for.

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