Toby Lester interview, "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" Here's the really curious thing though: at that time no European had ever seen what we now call the "Pacific Ocean." Balboa was the...
Conventional wisdom holds that European explorers were still confused about the contours of the New World at the time of Columbus's death in May 1506 and didn't see the Pacific Ocean until Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien in 1513. Even on his deathb...
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