* Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Use the closest, regardless of what it is.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions somewhere – blog, facebook, etc.

Here’s mine:

Cosmographia introductio was accompanied by a globe 9on which was marked the continent ‘America’) and a large map of the world ‘containing the islands and countries recently discovered by the Spaniard Americus Vespucius in the western sea’ – from Mercator: the man who mapped the planet by Nicholas Crane