Magellan

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061865885
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1908968087
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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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 259 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.

Author : Douglas Evans
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1629795925
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 044843105X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383370
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780739814840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429931441
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Sailed with Magellan written by Stuart Dybek and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 320 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.

Author : Jennifer Strand
Publisher : Abdo Zoom-Launch
ISBN 13 : 9781680792416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Jennifer Strand and published by Abdo Zoom-Launch. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy reading this biography about Ferdinand Magellan and what he did to become known.

Author : Rachael Morlock
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508168563
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magellan Sails Around the World written by Rachael Morlock and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinand Magellan was a famed Portuguese explorer. His voyage, launched in 1519, led to the discovery that the globe could be circumnavigated by sea. Although Magellan himself did not survive the incredible journey that led to this discover, his contributions to the scientific understanding of Earth's surface were inestimable. This dynamic and thorough history of Magellan's expedition will intrigue readers and impart to them a greater knowledge of important social studies and science topics.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545750254
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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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.