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

By: Laurence Bergreen

Published November 2nd 2004 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published January 1st 2003)

Category: Arts

Pages: 438 pages

ISBN: 9780060936389

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.