Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?

Author: S. A. Kramer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 044843105X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
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.

Over the Edge of the World

Author: Laurence Bergreen
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061865885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
“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.

The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522

Author: Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
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.

Ferdinand Magellan

Author: Mervyn D. Kaufman
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736824873
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
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.

Magellan

Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756501259
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Describes the journey taken by Magellan that proved the earth was round and that the oceans were connected.

“The” Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1480-1521

Author: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description

Ferdinand Magellan

Author: Jim Hargrove
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516030517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
The life of the Portuguese navigator and explorer who launched the first voyage around the world in the early 1500's but met his death before his men completed the expedition.

The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan

Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9780739814840
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.

Ferdinand Magellan and the Discovery of the World Ocean

Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher: Chelsea House
ISBN: 9780791012918
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
A biography of the Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world, thus providing the first positive proof that the earth is round.

The Nautical Puzzle Book

Author: The National Maritime Museum
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1529322820
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
__________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.