Over the Edge of the World

Over the Edge of the World

2003 • 500 pages

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Average rating3.8

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Chronicles Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century, including first-person accounts previously unavailable in English.


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An easy to read adventure. Good popular history.

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This could have been really really good, but for the endless, countless, large, boring and completely useless digressions (about the Chinese expeditions a century before, about the intrigues in Rome in choosing popes, about the Holy Roman empire and so on, even entire pages about Filipino sex)...

April 4, 2025