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

Title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Author: Bergreen, Laurence
ISBN: 9780060936389
Publisher: Perennial / HarperCollins
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description:

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review

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.

--New Zealand Herald