A novel that details the historical life of Andrea Bianco, a mapmaker, native of Venice, during the reign of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal. In the mid-1400s Lisboa was all but the center of the world, for there Portugal's prince, insatiable for knowledge of the far reaches of the earth,...
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A novel that details the historical life of Andrea Bianco, a mapmaker, native of Venice, during the reign of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal. In the mid-1400s Lisboa was all but the center of the world, for there Portugal's prince, insatiable for knowledge of the far reaches of the earth, had gathered the most enlightened geographers, astronomers, explorers, and navigational experts to be found.
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