Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe“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
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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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Laurence Bergreen No preview available - 2004 |
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Laurence Bergreen No preview available - 2003 |
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Laurence Bergreen No preview available - 2003 |
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