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Books : Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)

by: Laurence Bergreen

: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.92
EAN: 9780060936389
ISBN: 006093638X
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: November 01, 2004
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 15391

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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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- ...nobody knows about ELCANO?
It is very sad that in the presentation of the book you can find in this web, there is not any comment or even a reminder about the man in charge of the survivors of that trip. It was the spaniard Sebastian Elcano and he was the first in circunnavigating the globe. Magallanes died at the half of that trip. Let's be rigorous and give the honor to whom deserve.

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- A Spectacular Journey
As an Audiobook consumer, Over the Edge of the World left me breathless. The recounting of the history, journey, and culture of our world in circa 1500 was superb. Perhaps many text-based consumers missed out on the imaginary aspects that present in audio form. Since I had no visual cues, I had to find maps online, and followed the journey in that fashion. I had the pleasure of "hearing" the Portuguese names pronounced by the narrator, rather than plodding through foreign language in text. I now ... Read More

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- Utterly readable, I was held in thrall....
I was afraid this book would lack detail since it depicted events 500 years ago, but there was a passenger who, fortunately, became a primary source, and kept the narrative interesting. The opening scene of the book, with the ghostly ship arriving back in Spain, grabs the reader's attention, then there is a long discussion of Magellan's efforts to get the expedition funded and underway. After wading through this moderately interesting segment, the story really picks up once the armada sails. From ... Read More

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- Discovering the world, kings fighting, men surviving, women chattel
A truly terrifying and detailed eyewitness account of Magellan's voyage westward around the world by sea. It is not hard to get sucked in by Magellan's political persistence, and his entire crew's efforts at survival as they stepped off land they knew to a waterworld larger, deeper, and yet more inhabited than anyone knew. No modern reader can understand what it meant in the 16th century to board a ship to a world where entire continents and oceans were unknown, and longitude was uncalculatable. It ... Read More

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- fascinating history
This is a fascinating read, full of details (politics of the time, how ships operate, torture, sexual mores of various tribes around the world, etc.). The story of the first voyage around the world is so amazingly dramatic one would say "too far fetched" if it were fiction. Every page is so rich with detail that you want to just slow down as you read. The only slight flaw is that the characters do not come quite as alive as I would have liked. But everything else about this book is so good, it's well ... Read More

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.92
EAN: 9780060936389
ISBN: 006093638X
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: November 01, 2004
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 15391
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