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{{newreview
|author=Toby Lester
|title=The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In 2003 a map was bought for $10 million, the highest price ever paid publicly for a historical document, by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. No ordinary map, this is sometimes described as America's birth certificate. It is the sole survivor of a thousand copies printed early in the 16th century, and was discovered by accident in some archives in a German castle in 1901. The sale and story behind it intrigued Toby Lester so much that he was inspired to discover more, and this book is the result.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978030</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenifer Roberts