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

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - History - 512 pages

“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review

The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.

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.

Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.

 

Contents

A Ghostly Apparition
1
In Search of Empire
5
The Quest
7
The Man Without a Country
40
Neverlands
68
The Church of the Lawless
91
The Edge of the World
125
The Crucible of Leadership
127
The Final Battle
256
CONTENTS Back from the Dead
289
Ship of Mutineers
291
Survivors
313
Et in Arcadia Ego
341
Ghost Ship
368
After Magellan
395
Notes on Sources
415

Castaways
155
Dragons Tail
172
A Race Against Death
204
A Vanished Empire
221
Bibliography
431
Acknowledgments
441
Index
445
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LAURENCE BERGREEN is the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. His other books include Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492–1504; Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu; and Voyage to Mars: NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth. A graduate of Harvard, Bergreen lives in Manhattan.

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