This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first ...

Sources: Carla LaGata/Carsten Balzer, TvT Project, Transgender Europe ... click here. This map appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.