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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Laurence Bergreen

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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.

YAAdventureBiography & MemoirHistory
Pages
512
First published
January 1, 2003