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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review 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...

Excerpt from Cristobal Colon y Su Detractor el Marques de Dos Fuentes (Don Fernando Anton del Olmet) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,...

Escrita por un español, con pasión pero con la suficiente ecuanimidad como para exponer los claroscuros de nuestro pasado.

"El viaje a Italia" constituye un fenómeno fascinante para entender la formación de Europa, sus momentos sublimes y sus más prosaicas, y no menos interesantes, aventuras carnales. Desde los viajeros que en el Renacimento buscaban lo "humano" de la antigüedad latina hasta los actuales viajes organizados, masificados, este ritual contacto con las raíces de la cultura ha influido a multitud de escritores y artistas de la talla de Edward Gibbon, Goethe, Stendhal, Heine, Turner o Henry James, entre muchos otros. Con un estilo divertido y una documentación apabullante, Attilio Brilli teje una ...