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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Rough Cut) - Softcover

Bergreen, Laurence

 
9780060936389: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Rough Cut)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 006093638X ISBN 13: 9780060936389
Verlag: WILLIAM MORROW, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A chronicle of Ferdinand Magellan's sixteenth-century voyage around the world draws on candid first-person accounts and describes his crew's experiences with mutiny, navigation, death, unusual sexual practices, and Magellan's ruthless leadership tactics. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Laurence Bergreen is the author of four biographies, each considered the definitive work on its subject: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, Capone: The Man and the Era, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, and Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth. A graduate of Harvard University, he lives in New York City.

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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.

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Verlag
WILLIAM MORROW
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
006093638X
ISBN 13 
9780060936389
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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