Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe - 3094

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review 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.
ASIN: 006093638X
VSKU: 31UF1U0019E6_ns
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Bergreen, Laurence
Binding: Paperback