The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.

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.

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Publisher : HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (October 13, 2009)