Dan Seitz

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Fearing shoals, Magellan adjusted his navigational technique; instead of gliding through deep fjords, he steered a course in rough water between two rocks later named, with a bitter irony best appreciated by wary sailors, The Evangelists and Good Hope.
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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