Magallanes

El hombre y su gesta

Magallanes - Stefan Zweig - Capitán Swing
Publisher name: 
Capitán Swing
Year of publication: 
2020
Pages: 
264
Book size:
14x22cm
Weight: 340 g
Binding: 
Rustic with flaps

In 1518, a quarter of a century after Christopher Columbus, a Portuguese exile, Magellan, managed to convince the King of Spain, Carlos I, to provide him with a fleet in order to explore the sea that separated Asia from America, the discovered continent. by Columbus a few years earlier. At thirty-nine years old, he was in command of a fleet of five ships and 265 men, and he was beginning an episode that would mark the history of navigation and humanity. A riot, cold, hunger, rivalry, cartographic errors ... the famous adventurer will be spared nothing. With his fluid and elegant prose, Zweig recounts Magellan's experience as a great adventure novel, in which it remains the most beautiful account of this journey. Carefully documented, the reconstruction of his feat is a brilliant picture of economic and political conditions at the beginning of the 16th century, and pays tribute to the ...read more

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Book: Magallanes

ISBN: 9788494966859
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