Title: Great history of magellan's voyages
Product review: Over the edge of the world presents a fascinating history of the voyages of magellan covering his attempts to get financing and backing, the voyages themselves, conflicts they encountered and uprisings and mutinys on his ships.The history is told in a more journalistic rather than purely academic style using contemporary accounts of magellan's voyages from his biographer Atonio Pigafetta and other sources.One of the fascinating aspects of this account is the descriptions of the Chinese fleet and the implications of its voyages. Gavin Menzes describes some of his hypotheses on the Chinese voyages in his book 1421.Overall a great historical account.
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