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Rent Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Nov 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 512
Synopsis
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.