Longest Voyage : Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery

This book captures the drama & danger & personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World & explored the Pacific. The century was characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, & bloodshed. Robert Silverberg brings these early ocean explorers intensely alive. Captured within the total context of political climate, social values, & historic change that made the Age of Discovery one of the most exciting & dramatic in all history, Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Noort, Spilbergen, Schouten, & Le Maire are strangely contemporary. ¿A readable, accurate, & unbiased account of these epic journeys.¿ Maps.Silverberg, Robert A. is the author of 'Longest Voyage : Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422367766 and ISBN 1422367762.