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Ferdinand Magellan
Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
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Description for Ferdinand Magellan
Lets you discover how a young captain battled mutiny, starvation, illness, and conflicts with his own countrymen to be remembered in history as the first to circumnavigate the globe. Series: Great Explorers. Num Pages: 112 pages, full-colour & black-&-white photographs & maps, sidebars, chronology & timeline, bibliogr. BIC Classification: BGH; RGR; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 386.
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for the Spanish, believed he could find a shorter route to India by heading west instead of east. Like Columbus before him, he was destined to reach the Americas. Magellan, however, continued past the New World and sailed into the Pacific Ocean. The expedition took a horrible turn when Magellan became involved in a tribal war between the local chiefs in the Philippines. He was brutally killed, and only one vessel returned to Spain with a skeleton crew of 18. In ""Ferdinand Magellan"", discover how a young captain battled mutiny, starvation, illness, and conflicts ... Read more
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for the Spanish, believed he could find a shorter route to India by heading west instead of east. Like Columbus before him, he was destined to reach the Americas. Magellan, however, continued past the New World and sailed into the Pacific Ocean. The expedition took a horrible turn when Magellan became involved in a tribal war between the local chiefs in the Philippines. He was brutally killed, and only one vessel returned to Spain with a skeleton crew of 18. In ""Ferdinand Magellan"", discover how a young captain battled mutiny, starvation, illness, and conflicts ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Great Explorers
Number of Pages
112
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Broomall, United States
ISBN
9781604134223
SKU
V9781604134223
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About Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Rachel A. Koestler-Grack has worked as an editor and writer of nonfiction books since 1999. She has written numerous biographies on a variety of historical and contemporary figures. She lives in the German community of New Ulm, Minnesota.
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