Download or read book Over the Edge of the World written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. 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. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.
Download or read book Magellan written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history – he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines. In this biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery by telling the tale of one of the era’s most daring adventurers. In typically flowing and elegant prose he takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery ourselves.
Download or read book MVP written by Douglas Evans and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days? That's the challenge Adam faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against others for a four-million-dollar prize! Trackers with blowguns and a nefarious baron don't make things easy.
Download or read book Who Was Ferdinand Magellan written by S. A. Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance readers' understanding of the period.
Download or read book Magellan written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the journey taken by Magellan that proved the earth was round and that the oceans were connected.
Download or read book The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan written by Joanne Mattern and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.
Download or read book Straits written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand Magellan. The truth that Fernández-Armesto uncovers about Magellan’s life, his character, and the events of his ill-fated voyage offers up a stranger, darker, and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been celebrated for half a millennium. Magellan did not attempt—much less accomplish—a journey around the globe. In his lifetime he was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant, self-condemned to destruction, and dismissed as a failure. Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero and discloses the reality of the man, probing the passions and tensions that drove him to adventure and drew him to disaster. We see the mutations of his character: pride that became arrogance, daring that became recklessness, determination that became ruthlessness, romanticism that became irresponsibility, and superficial piety that became, in adversity, irrational exaltation. As the real Magellan emerges, so do his real ambitions, focused less on circumnavigating the world or cornering the global spice market than on exploiting Filipino gold. Straits is a study in failure and the paradox of Magellan’s career, showing that renown is not always a reflection of merit but often a gift and accident of circumstance.
Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinand Magellan made one of the most famous ocean voyages of all time. He left Spain in 1519 with five ships. He was trying to find a quicker route to the Spice Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he encountered many problems. Many of his men turned against him. He ran into heavy storms. Food and fresh water were often in short supply. But he kept going-until he was killed in battle. A year later, one of his ships returned to Spain. It was the first time anyone had sailed all the way around the world. Although Magellan did not complete the trip, he is given credit, for without his inspired leadership, the voyage would never have succeeded.
Download or read book I Sailed with Magellan written by Stuart Dybek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major new fiction from an acclaimed master From the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventures of his hero, the restless Perry Katzek. There is remarkable music in each of Dybek's intertwined episodes, the rhythm of street life captured in all its emotional depth and unexpected humor: a man takes his young nephew to a string of taverns where the boy sings for his uncle's bourbon; a small-time thug is distracted from making a hit by the mysterious reappearance of several ex-girlfriends; two unemployed youths hatch a scheme to finance their road trip to Mexico by selling orchids stolen from the rich side of town; a young couple's amorous beach adventure is interrupted when an unexpected visitor washes ashore. As these poignant, often funny chapters unfold, Perry grapples toward the exotic possibilities the world offers him, glimpsing them even beneath the at times brutal surface of the inner-city. Throughout I Sailed With Magellan, fans of Dybek will find the captivating storytelling, the sharp, spare prose, the brilliant dramatization of resilient, inventive humanity that they have come to expect from him.
Download or read book Seven Voyages written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian Oceans, traveling as far as the east coast of Africa, expanding Chinese power globally, warring with pirates, and capturing enemies along the way in the name of his emperor, Zhu Di. But this giant figure was not always at the helm of a ship.
Download or read book The First Voyage Around the World 1519 1522 written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Download or read book Magellan written by Tim Joyner and published by International Marine Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this stirring account of an epic voyage beset by shipwreck, desertions, scurvy, and hunger, (Magellan) emerges as an all-too-human hero who tested the limits of the possible."--"Publishers Weekly."
Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Mervyn D. Kaufman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the life of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who found a passage for ships to sail west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Download or read book Magellan s World written by Stuart Waldman and published by Great Explorers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan, the man who discovered the Americas for the rulers of Spain.
Download or read book Magellan s Voyage Around the World written by Cath Senker and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can follow great explorers on historical journeys along famous landforms with this unique series. The geographical features are tied into the personal accounts of the explorers on their expeditions, including the conditions and equipment they had. Each book is filled with primary sources such as quotations from diaries and journals.
Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
