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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Laurence Bergreen
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I would just like to comment on how Magellan died. He was not murdured, but was killed in battle. He set a whole village on fire on the account of the village's not wanting to be Christians. He was an intruder to that land yet he claimed it to be his. Magellan went to battle the natives who believed that he was wrong.
You make it seem as if the natives murdered a hero. True that Magellan was first to circumnavigate the world and that was marvelous, but he was also one of history's greatest murderers. He used the name of Christianity to kill the real owners of the land he set foot on. He was not and never will be a hero.
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One of history's greatest adventures!
In 1519 a fleet of five ships staffed by some 260 men set sail with the goal of circumnavigating the globe, a feat never before accomplished. More than three years later only a single boat, carrying just 18 of the original sailors, returned home. In a stroke of good fortune, one of the men who survived the entire journey was Antonio Pigafetta, whom Ferdinand Magellan had assigned to chronicle the voyage.
Daunting obstacles stood between Magellan and his goal: Ships were lost to mutiny and fierce weather, men were lost to scurvy and hostile natives, and a gross underestimate of the Pacific Ocean's breadth nearly thwarted the entire endeavor. King Manuel of Portugal even dispatched two fleets of caravels in an attempt intercept and arrest Magellan (although Magellan was Portuguese, he undertook this voyage on behalf of Spain).
The circumnavigation of the globe was not merely a test of endurance, but also a voyage of discovery. These men literally sailed beyond the edge of the charted world into a vast and formidable unknown. They were the first to record and navigate a hypothesized strait through South America (which we now know as the Strait of Magellan), the first to make contact with the peoples of the Patagonia region (a name Magellan coined), and the first to accurately gauge the enormity of the Pacific Ocean (which also owes its name to Magellan).
Over the Edge of the World is an outstanding mix of character study, life-or-death drama, and amazing discoveries. Magellan's voyage easily ranks as one of the greatest and most daring feats in the history of humankind, and Laurence Bergreen does it justice with this fine work.
I had no idea!
I have to admit that before this book I was in the dark regarding the historical account of Magellan's voyage. I had no idea the trouble and turmoil that the voyage faced. With great detail and perspective, this book was hard to put down. I loved it! Highly recommended if you like great non-fiction accounts of endurance.
The World Is Round - The Book Is Flat
Consider Magellan's circumnavigation of the world: a voyage through the absolute unknown. Boldly going where no man had gone before - discovering new lands, peoples, and creatures, and coming to a radical new understanding of the very nature of the world. In many ways this is the greatest adventure ever undertaken, and so the telling of it calls for an accounting on the grandest scale.
And so it begins. In the prologue the author writes, "They had survived an expedition to the ends of the earth, but more than that, they had endured a voyage into the darkest recesses of the human soul". Reading the book on the beach at Nantucket, looking out over the ocean to the horizon, I wondered for a moment what lay just over the edge, and I braced myself for an epic tale of gripping exploration.
It never came.
Bergreen writes in a matter of fact manner that imparts information about the voyage while stripping away the excitement, the adventure, and the raw confrontation with the abyss of the unknown. I plowed through it and was glad when I was done.
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz, the story of the travels of Captain Cook some two hundred years later, tells a far more engaging tale.
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