El hombre y su gesta
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
