The True Story of How America Got Its Name

By Rodney Broome

Book Overview

That's right. According to Rodney Broome's historical detective work, "America" most probably refers to a wealthy British custom's officer who helped sponsor English explorations in the New World. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567315453
• ISBN13: 9781567315455
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Mjf Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

what's in a name?

TERRA INCOGNITA is the telling of history from another point of view, connecting the dots between voyages, ships, cargoes & paymasters.If you like to know the who, why, when & how of historical things & events, then TERRA INCOGNITA will thrill you. Into this little book is packed a ton of trivia that is both fascinating & extra-ordinary, about the exploration of the world from the "Twelve Wooden Plates" upon which a new map was secured for printing & what Amerigo Vespucci had to do with them, to "The Commercial Revolution" in which the Black Plague had people sailing away in fleets to the farthest reaches of the globe, to "A Young Genoan Arrives in Bristol" being excerpts from journals of the icon of exploration to "Bristol Ships in Lisbon and Huelva" where Christopher Columbus had been dwelling, to "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion" wherein a medieval proverb comes to life & so on into the stuff of legends, all the facts & the fictions.Very well done...a superb history of mapmakers & voyagers...certainly for every history buff, & anyone interested in writing about merchant seamen, explorers & maps.