Ober follows Vespucci from his family and teachers in Florence to service with the Medici’s agents in Spain, conversations with Columbus, and the disputed voyages to the coasts of Paria and Brazil, sailing with Ojeda and others. He weighs the letters on which Vespucci’s reputation rests and explains how a mapmaker came to call the New World America.
A readable popular biography for anyone interested in the age of discovery and its controversies. Download the free EPUB.