The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 99
sent, they brought with themNiccolos son Marco, then fifteen years old, whobecame the famous traveler and the first Euro-pean explorer to write a book about what he 88 CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY had seen. If you have not done so yet, you for one ship which left India with a cargo of should read… … EARLY FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MAP OF THE WORLD. This map is a copy of a very beautiful one made maps to be found, it is certain that such drawings in the early part of the fifteenth century, and now were made, and he left most accurate directions for preserved in the famous library of San Lorenzo, at…
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