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Wow! For a fun little "interesting" read, currently available for
only $3.00 plus S&H = $6.94.
I very much enjoy specifics of trade at the beginning of modern
economy. Wool cloth from England to Spain, and wine back.
Throw in huge fish and salt and 'spoiled wine" !!


Terra Incognita: The True Story of How America Got Its Name Hardcover – December 13, 2013
by Rodney Broome

from
https://www.amazon.com/Terra-Incognita-True-Story-America/dp/0944638228

Wow! For a fun little "interesting" read, currently available for
only $3.00 plus S&H = $6.94.

"How did America get its name. If it was Christopher Columbus, why
wasn't it called Columbia? A series of seemingly unconnected discoveries
in the past few years points a beam of light at a new and intriguing
theory as to how America got its name. Terra Incognita captures the
spirit and essence of the age of discovery and introduces new characters
that a compelling story of adventure and romance. A fascinating and illuminating light on events that changed the world."

As one reviewer said, "Nerd brain
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind blowing new info about America and its name!
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2021
Verified Purchase
What a fabulous read. I so enjoyed the historic perspective and
captivated my curiosity about Vespucci, Cabot and Columbus."

or, as another wrote: "TR
2.0 out of 5 stars Terra Incognita, or The Role Cod Fishing Possibly
Played in...uh, something something...America
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2019
Mr. Broome seems like a sincere gentleman who is proud of his hometown,
but this reads like an essay that he wrote after taking a writing course
at the community center and then distributed to his relatives at a
family reunion. Okay, maybe that is a little extreme. However, one could
make a drinking game out of the number of times he uses words like
"possibly", "probably", and "would have" and the like in the course of
the book. Rather than give evidence that two people knew each other or
that someone had actually seen a map, he will constantly write that the
event "probably" happened. That is not scholarship. I did find the parts
about cod fishing off the coast of the New World interesting and would
have been interested in a well-researched book about just that and leave
out the tenuous connections to some guy whose name sometimes looks like Amerike."

and another perspective: " Richard S. Hoffman
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun to read, but not serious history.
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014
I read the U.S. edition of this book. While it is fun to read, it is
poorly sourced, and I use it in my history classes when I want to give
an example of an unreliable source. For example, one of the sources upon
which Broome bases his conclusions is the letter from Johan Day, which
is not referenced in his bibliography.
Broome's arguments may be accurate, but they are based on conjecture,
and I have yet to find a modern historian of note who takes them
seriously. Besides, no serious historian would ever name his book "The
True Story of..." anything!
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and another " Rebecca Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars what's in a name?
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2003
TERRA INCOGNITA is the telling of history from another point of view, connecting the dots between voyages, ships, cargoes & paymasters.
If you like to know the who, why, when & how of historical things &
events, then TERRA INCOGNITA will thrill you. Into this little book is
packed a ton of trivia that is both fascinating & extra-ordinary, about
the exploration of the world from the "Twelve Wooden Plates" upon which
a new map was secured for printing & what Amerigo Vespucci had to do
with them, to "The Commercial Revolution" in which the Black Plague had
people sailing away in fleets to the farthest reaches of the globe, to
"A Young Genoan Arrives in Bristol" being excerpts from journals of the
icon of exploration to "Bristol Ships in Lisbon and Huelva" where
Christopher Columbus had been dwelling, to "Shipshape and Bristol
Fashion" wherein a medieval proverb comes to life & so on into the stuff
of legends, all the facts & the fictions.
Very well done...a superb history of mapmakers & voyagers...certainly
for every history buff, & anyone interested in writing about merchant
seamen, explorers & maps.
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And from Goodreads, I see this https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/406899.Terra_Incognita

"Sandra Strange
Sandra Strange rated it really liked it
Shelves: history-and-nonfiction
This fascinating chronicle has a thesis: America didn't get its name
from Amerigo Vespucci, but from an authority in the Bristol merchant
class who knew a lot about America--long before Columbus. Read this book
to overturn a lot of what you think you know about the "discovery" of
America.

As for me, I do not think America was named for this Bristol merchant,
but still it is a fun little easily read and interesting book!
I liked the vision of the rowboat pulling the ship with the incomming
tide to the pier, where the outgoing tide dropped it in the mud!

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