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The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci: Documents of his Discoveries, Exploration and Mapping of the New World and South Americas (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci: Documents of his Discoveries, Exploration and Mapping of the New World and South Americas (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Adventurer, merchant and mapper of the New World, Amerigo
Vespucci's life is fascinating and vivid - his letters, published
here in full, reveal his discoveries. Born in Florence in the
mid-15th century, Vespucci expressed an interest in the
newly-discovered lands across the Atlantic Ocean from an early age.
Educated by his uncle, a learned Dominican friar, in youth that
Vespucci displayed a talent for money matters and mathematics -
these talents helped during his sea expeditions, which saw him draw
many of the first maps made of South America's coast. This book
does not merely contain Vespucci's own writings, but also letters
of other authors who refer to him and his accomplishments.
Christopher Columbus praised Vespucci's competence, while he is
alluded to multiple times in the writings of historian Bartolome de
las Casas. The compiler, annotator and translator of these
correspondences is Clements R. Markham, who is keen to reveal the
character and deeds that underpin Amerigo Vespucci's reputation.
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