Over the edge of the world : Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe
(2009)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780061865886 MWT15397012, 0061865885 15397012
LANGUAGE
English
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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage-now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan's voyage

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