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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
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Author
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
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Publisher
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Key Porter
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.9
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ISBN
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9781552638927
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Pages/Publication Date
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231/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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00534
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This item is not available.
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Description
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April 25, 2007, marked the 500th anniversary of an extraordinary event: the naming of America. The story of how it happened is a murky tale of intrepid seafarers and failed business ventures, naive scientists and greedy publishers, mendacity and spin. Above all, it is the fascinating tale of Amerigo Vespucci, a small-time Florentine trader with a talent for self-promotion who reinvented himself as explorer and stargazer, and whose reputation has since become entangled in webs of myth. Felipe Fernández-Armesto's eminently readable book carefully disentangles these webs to show the part Vespucci actually played in the story.
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