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AMERIGO: THE MAN WHO GAVE HIS NAME TO AMERICA, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Random House, 233 pages, $15, softbound.
The author of this informative book is a cartographer and history professor at Tufts University in Boston and the author of several books on early American history. Amerigo Vespucci is mostly a forgotten adventurer and merchant for whom the new world was named. Apparently, he was a talented self-promoter who turned himself into an explorer.See the full content of this document
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Book Explores Vespucci's Life
In 1507, European cartographers decided to name the western hemisphere "America" after this Florentine man who was most noted for his...
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