Over the Edge of the World
Douban
ISBN: 9780060936389
author:
Laurence Bergreen
publishing house:
Harper Perennial
publication date: 2004
price: USD 15.99
number of pages: 512
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen
overview
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.