false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255683740m/174354.jpg 174354 13 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. 168419 2003 Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) total:575|5:10|4:13|3:6|2:0|1:0| 575 2306 902 161 5 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 16:55:11 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 17:08:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:55:23 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 14:12:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 14:01:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:04:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 18:53:44 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 02:44:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 11 23:23:36 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 23:32:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 07:39:59 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:50:42 -0800 2008 Magellan adalah perwira Portugis ya...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 20 16:59:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 15:32:35 -0800 2009
When I started Over the Edge of the World, I thought it would be intellectually hip of me to get some more detailed insights in the historic round-the-world voyage of Magellan. Obviously, the tale of Magellan is ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 09:35:26 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 09:37:45 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 31 07:06:17 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 07:30:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 13:06:46 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 22:39:40 -0700 2009
Where to begin? This book was terrible. The story of Magellan is interesting, but this author completely ruined it, in my opinion.

First, the author skips around in time so often that I found myself having to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:07:19 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:16:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 01:40:29 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 02:27:04 -0800 2009
I thought I knew this story, and in some ways I did. The book (probably the abridged version) contains many details not included in the usual narra...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 20 07:40:01 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 08:55:13 -0700 2009
These guys were some brave, crazy, desperate, greedy, tough mothafuckas. What I took away from this book was that human beings will die trying ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 06:09:16 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 06:14:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Feb 05 09:23:17 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 15 06:43:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 06:45:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 11 16:32:18 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 21:22:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 06:49:32 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 08:24:26 -0700 2008
It read like some imaginative, fantastical epic out of the mind of a great fiction writer, but being drawn almost entirely from diaries and logbooks written by Magellan's own crew, it was all that much better in truth.

The quest for the riches that spi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 12 08:37:02 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 26 21:53:59 -0700 2008 In 1519 Spain and Portugal dominated the seas, and spice, which the author states was the oil of the time, enveloped both countries in an intense rivalry for control of the spice trade. Why couldn't both countries share the wealth? Well, after Columbus had reported his New World disc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 15:26:12 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 15:39:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=174354