Over The Edge Of The World Updated Edition

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60000mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research surefooted prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail a firstrate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellans daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a threeyear odyssey filled with sex violence and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World prizewinning 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.