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

Name: Over the Edge of the World Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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ISBN: 9780060936389

ISBN-10: 006093638X

ISBN-13: 9780060936389

Edition: 2003

Authors: 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.

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Principal Characters


A Note on Dates


Measurements


Prologue: A Ghostly Apparition



In Search of Empire



The Quest



The Man Without a Country



Neverlands



"The Church of the Lawless"



The Edge of the World



The Crucible of Leadership



Castaways



Dragon's Tail



A Race Against Death



A Vanished Empire



The Final Battle



Back from the Dead



Ship of Mutineers



Survivors



Et in Arcadia Ego



Ghost Ship



After Magellan


Notes on Sources


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index