Wyatt's World: What's In a Name-Maps and the Creation of America

Neal Wyatt -- Library Journal, 11/09/2009

• The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio by John W. Hessler (D. Giles Ltd.)
• Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Random)
• The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester (Free Pr.)
• Putting "America" on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States by Seymour I. Schwartz (Prometheus)
• New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration by Peter Whitfield (Routledge)

 Neal Wyatt is a collection development and readers’ advisory librarian in Virginia.