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Toby Lester will be at HARVARD CLUB-MAIN CLUBHOUSE,374 Commonwealth Avenue,Boston on 11/23 See detailsabout 18 hours ago
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The Fourth Part of the World is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Toby Lester's Books
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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, 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, 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 "...
DPL News & Views, August 10, 2009
...the Ends of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America its Name by Toby Lester. It’s about the re-discovery, in 1901, of the long lost Waldseemuller Map, created ca. 1507 in Europe. This is the first map to show the New World as...
