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Terra Incognita: The True Story of How America Got Its Name
Terra Incognita The True Story of How America Got Its Name Author:Rodney Broome Most of us learned in school that the New World was named after the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to the New World in 1499. This is almost certainly not the case. — As we investigate the last twenty-five years of the fifteenth century, we realize that a new continent was visited by explorers and merchants alike. And more amazing ... more »in itself -- it was given a name that has survived to this day. A series of seemingly unconnected recent discoveries suddenly reveal a new and intriguing theory about how America got its name.
The possibility of America being named after Welshman Richard Amerike was presented by Samuel Eliot Morison, an eminent American historian. Terra Incognita sheds an illuminating light on haphazard and hitherto unknown events that will change the way we view our world.« less