Аннотация
Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
How the World Became Flat
ONE: While I Was Sleeping
To Matt and Kay and to Ron
Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.
–Entry from the journal of Christopher Columbus on his voyage of 1492
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