OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD UPDATED EDITION

“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60000-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.