Description

Ferdinand Magellan’s bold circumnavigation of the globe within the sixteenth century was once a 3-year odyssey full of sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Fringe of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines numerous candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that modified each the best way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself.