Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Forget the sanitized legend you learned in school. Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe was not a glorious voyage of discovery; it was a three-year descent into terror. In Laurence Bergreen’s riveting account, you’ll join the five ships and 270 men who sailed off the map and into a nightmare of mutiny, starvation, and madness. Faced with unimaginable horrors, only one ship and 18 skeletal survivors would return. This is the harrowing, visceral true story of the incredible human price paid to prove the world was round.