Two Degrees West by Nicholas Crane

Two Degrees West

Nicholas Crane

365 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction travel adventurous slow-paced
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In 1494 the first prime meridian was drawn through the Azores islands by the crowns of Portugal and Castile under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, as the two kingdoms wrangled over possession of the globe in the aftermath of Christopher Col...

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