Over the Edge of the World

<p><strong>A first-rate historical page turner. --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60000-mile ocean voyage.</strong></p><p>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 <em>Over the Edge of the World</em> 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.</p><p>Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Magellan's voyage.</p>