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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 89829 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities, cloves, pepper, and nutmeg flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. During their remarkable voyage around the world the crew endured starvation, disease, mutiny, and torture. Many men died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle. This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance; a startling anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans; and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power. |
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Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521 -- Travel.
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Explorers -- Portugal -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
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Voyages around the world. -- Sound recordings.
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| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
| Standard No. |
9780792731047 |
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