Ferdinand Magellan

Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 044843105X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? written by S. A. Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance readers' understanding of the period.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061865885
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Edge of the World written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. 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 biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.

Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093701
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522 written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780739814840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan written by Joanne Mattern and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.

Author : Candy Gourlay
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647000297
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Candy Gourlay and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated biography of the famous explorer with “plenty of engaging action scenes and historical facts” (School Library Journal). Before he led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese noble who loved the sea. A skilled sailor, he led a number of voyages and is known for his incredible navigation skills. Over the course of his sailing career, he faced terrible storms and mutinies but always managed to get his crew home safely. He set off with his crew to circle the globe—a trip that no other ship had ever completed. Though Magellan died in combat in the Philippines before he could complete the voyage, his ship went on to complete the first circumnavigation of the world, and he is still known as one of the greatest explorers. However, as historians today note, many of the places that Magellan “discovered” already had people living there, and his fame is one rooted in colonialism. Ferdinand Magellan tackles the legacy—both good and bad—of this famous explorer. First Names is a highly illustrated nonfiction series that puts young readers on a first-name basis with some of the most incredible people in history and of today!

Author : Mervyn D. Kaufman
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736824873
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Mervyn D. Kaufman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the life of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who found a passage for ships to sail west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822529422
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Elaine Landau and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first man to sail around the world, Ferdinand Magellan was born around 1480 and grew up in Portugal. After several years in the Portuguese Navy, Magellan left for Spain, Portugal's greatest rival, in an attempt to further his career. Magellan set sail on a trip to in search of a straight through South America to reach the Spice Islands, and he became the first explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the globe.

Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780761412380
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Milton Meltzer and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What must it have been like to be the first to circumnavigate the globe or traverse America from shore to shore? What political, social and financial factors of the day encouraged exploration? What personal dreams and desires drove these fearless men to search the vast unknown waters and lands, to tempt danger time and time again, all in the name of discovery? In Great Explorations, acclaimed authors including recent Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer guide us through the adventures of the indomitable explorers who knew first-hand the joys and sorrows of pioneering.

Author : Jennifer Strand
Publisher : Abdo Zoom-Launch
ISBN 13 : 9781680792416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Jennifer Strand and published by Abdo Zoom-Launch. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy reading this biography about Ferdinand Magellan and what he did to become known.

Author : Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Ferdinand Magellan, and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe written by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: