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

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

by Laurence Bergreen
Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

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

by Laurence Bergreen

Overview

“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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062890481
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 07/23/2019
Edition description: Updated
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 67,835
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Principal Characters xi

A Mote on Dates xiii

Measurements xv

Introduction to the Quincentenary Edition xvii

Prologue: A Ghostly Apparition 1

Book 1 In Search of Empire

Chapter I The Quest 7

Chapter II The Man Without a Country 40

Chapter III Neverlands 68

Chapter IV "The Church of the Lawless" 91

Book 2 The Edge of the World

Chapter V The Crucible of Leadership 127

Chapter VI Castaways 155

Chapter VII Dragon's Tail 172

Chapter VIII A Race Against Death 204

Chapter IX A Vanished Empire 221

Chapter X The Final Battle 256

Book 3 Back from the Dead

Chapter XI Ship of Mutineers 291

Chapter XII Survivors 313

Chapter XIII Et in Arcadia Ego 341

Chapter XIV Ghost Ship 368

Chapter XV After Magellan 395

Notes on Sources 415

Bibliography 431

Acknowledgments 441

Index 445

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