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Roger Bacon, the Franciscan monk in the 13th century, wrote, “there is no doubt that corporeal roads signify spiritual roads.” Cartographers believed this as well: early maps reveal visual histories, littered with legends, lore and drawings of monsters and “terra incognita,” maps that embody the view of the world at the time, complete with gods, demons and strange creatures. In this sumptuous, lavishly illustrated history of map-making and the visions of the world it incarnated, Toby Lester, contributing editor and writer for The Atlantic, presents an epic tale of mariners and explorers, monks and merchants, popes and kings from Ptolemy’s first-century Guide to Drawing a World Map to the centerpiece of this book, Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map on which the word “America” first appears. Read the full review of the new 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” by The Providence Journal here.

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