Laurence Bergreen

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (2004)

It was a dream as old as the imagination: a voyage to the ends of the earth. I could hardly believe this is a non-fiction book. The way Lawrence Bergreen tells it, it rivals the greatest epics of literature, with Magellan a mythical figure to rival Jason or Ulysses. Every word of the book is supp...