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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Paperback - 2004

by 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.

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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.

--New Zealand Herald

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On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon near the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain.

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  • Title Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
  • Author Laurence Bergreen
  • Series P.S.
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 2, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060936389 / 006093638X
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.88 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1190
  • Library of Congress subjects Explorers - Portugal, Voyages around the world - History - 16th
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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