Over the Edge of the World - Book

A vivid account of Magellan's thoroughly terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe. Includes first-person accounts never before available in English. Filled with sex, violence and unprecedented adventures.

Laurence Bergreen's Over the Edge of the World tells the story of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation, a three-year, 60,000-mile voyage during the Age of Discovery filled with violence and adventure.

Bergreen, a prize-winning biographer and journalist, weaves together candid firsthand accounts of the expedition. This updated edition, published by HarperCollins in 2019, adds a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of the voyage.