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Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition - Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback, Updated ed.)
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Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition - Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback, Updated ed.)
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In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville, Spain in search
of valuable spices; he brought along a fleet of five ships and more
than two hundred men. When the expedition returned home three years
later, the fleet was reduced to one ship and only eighteen men;
Magellan himself had been killed during the journey. However, the
group had found the spices it had sought -- and a way to
circumnavigate the globe. Laurence Bergreen brings this historic
journey to life in Over the Edge of the World; it is at once a
travelogue of a remarkable journey into unknown territory, an
examination of the European worldview as it moved from the Middle
Ages to the Renaissance, and the chronicle of a desperate grab for
commercial and political power. Magellan's voyage was filled with
violence, death and danger, but it ultimately changed the way
explorers would navigate the oceans, along with many long-held
assumptions about the world. Laurence Bergreen is the author of
many books, including Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, Capone:
The Man and the Era, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin,
and Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth. A graduate
of Harvard University, he lives in New York City. "It's all here in
wondrous detail ... A first-rate historical page turner." -- New
York Times Book Review
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