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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is an extremely prestigious historian who has had a number of bestselling books Comparable to 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro

'Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Fernandez-Armesto's chapters on the western Mediterranean are models of how to write popular history: accessible, provocative and full of telling detail' **** Mail on Sunday 'Fernandez-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded in research, insightfully critical, and written with grace' Literary Review 'Engrossing' Daily Telegraph

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. His books include Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, The Times Atlas of World Exploration, Columbus, Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World, Barcelona: a Thousand Years of the City's Past, Millennium and Food: A History. Translations of his work have appeared in twenty languages and he has been shortlisted for numerous prizes. He is vice president of the Hakluyt Society. He holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of the University of Notre Dame, where he is a professor of history and, concurrently, of classics and of the history and philosophy of science.

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