Laurence Bergreen

Over the Edge of the World (eBook, ePUB)

Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061865886
• Artikelnr.: 37994615

Autorenporträt

Laurence Bergreen is the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe and In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire. His other books include Columbus: The Four Voyages, 14921504; 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.