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Toby Lester

Toby Lester is a contributing editor to and has written extensively for The Atlantic. A former Peace Corps volunteer and United Nations observer, he lives in the Boston area with his wife and three daughters. His previous book, The Fourth Part of the World (2009), about the map that gave America its name, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award and was picked as a Book of the Year by several other publications. His work has also appeared on the radio program This American Life.

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Da Vinci's Ghost
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Da Vinci's Ghost Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image By: Toby Lester
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2012
EVERYONE KNOWSTHE IMAGE. NO ONE KNOWS ITS STORY. This is the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the nature of...
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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: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publication date: July 6, 2010
"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...
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