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Fernandez-Armesto Amerigo The Man Who Gave His Name To America?
The book I have chosen for my book report is “Amerigo- the man who gave his name to America.” The author of this book is Felip Fernandez- Armesto. He wrote this book in 2007. He is the prince of Asturias professor of History at tufts University and a professional fellow of Queen Mary University of London. He wrote many books which have come in twenty-four different languages. His books on the history of exploration include Columbus, Before Columbus, Pathfinders, and the Times Atlas of World Exploration and have won many awards like Caird Medal, the John Carter Brown Medal. The journals and broadcast he had done frequently came on Spanish and British media.

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