Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802093701
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.
Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Nancy Smiler Levinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395987735
A biography of the Portuguese sea captain who set sail from Spain in 1519 and successfully sailed around the world to prove that the world is not only round but circumnavigable.
Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061865885
“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 : Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Publisher : London, Philip
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN :
Author : Fernão de Oliveira
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN :
Author : Betty Burnett
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823936175
A description of the life and voyage of the sixteenth-century Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition to sail around the world.
Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101640014
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 : George Makepeace Towle
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780756501259
Describes the journey taken by Magellan that proved the earth was round and that the oceans were connected.
