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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America kennedy assassination An exploration of photography inAuthor Contributor(s): Lester, Toby Publisher: Free Press Date: 7 6 2010 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemller world map of 1507. So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They