The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci: Documents of his Discoveries, Exploration and Mapping of the New World and South Americas

by Clements Robert Markham and Amerigo Vespucci

Book Overview

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, it was in youth that Vespucci displayed a talent for money matters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789870666
• ISBN13: 9781789870664
• Release Date: January 1894
• Publisher: Pantianos Classics
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"