| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (451 pages). |
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Marco Polo anthology |
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Marco Polo anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
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Original document: Book. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Biography [including Vespucci's letters of his four voyages].--pt. 2. Illustrations. [1] [Canovai, D.] Eulogium of Americus Vespucius .--2. A narrative addressed to Lorenzo di Pier-Francesco de' Medici; giving an account of the voyage and discoveries of Vasco de Gama beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the authorship of which, has been attributed to Americus Vespucius.--3. Letters of Paolo Toscanelli to Columbus.--4. Marco Polo and his travels.--5. Fellow-voyagers of Americus: Alonzo de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa [abridged mainly from Irving's Lives of the companions of Columbus].--6. Documents relating to Americus Vespucius, presented in the collection of Navarréte.--7. Letter of M. Ranke to M. de Humboldt, respecting the correspondence of Americus with Soderini and de' Medici.--8. The Vespucci family. |
| Summary |
This book gives a delightful telling of the life and adventures of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and cartographer whose name lends itself to the two continents that he helped distinguish from Asia. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.
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Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.
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Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
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Ojeda, Alonso de, approximately 1466-1515.
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Cosa, Juan de la, -1510.
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Vespucci family.
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Discoveries in geography.
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
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Foster, Andrew, active 19th century.
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Canovai, Stanislao, 1740-1811.
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Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.
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Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo, 1397-1482.
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Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
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