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  • PATAGONIA

    THE HISTORY OF PATAGONIA

    by Jaime Said ...
    PATAGONIA THE HISTORY OF PATAGONIA ENGLISH EDITION The history of Patagonia written by Jaime Said is the first consolidated account of explorations, endurance, and survival of man in the southern hemisphere, considering the flora and fauna of the region. It covers geographical limits, and detailed history of Patagonia since its discovery in 1520 up until the 19th century, when the territory become ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • MAGELLAN

    THE ORIGIN OF PATAGONIA

    by Jaime Said ...
    The maritime adventure that changed the history of the world. A story of Magellan and his voyage to the ends of the earth in 1520 to find Patagonia and the strait that joins the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, in order to reach the spice islands in Indonesia. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Columbus

    The Four Voyages, 1492-1504

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

    by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    "A brilliant and readable book…a rich study of humankind's restless spirit." —Candice Millard, New York Times Book ReviewGreeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus

    by Christopher Columbus ...
    Translated by J. Cohen ...
    No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • 1494

    How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    An "exciting" account of the feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the globe between Spain and Portugal and made the oceans a battleground ( Kirkus Reviews).When Columbus triumphantly returned to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smoldering conflict between Spain's monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Voyage of Columbus

    Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery

    by Martin Dugard ...
    This account of the explorer's disgrace, imprisonment, and desperate, final expedition "breathes life into that futile, unquenchable, 500-year-old dream" ( San Francisco Chronicle).#1 New York Times –Bestselling AuthorThe year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Spice Islands

    by Ian Burnet ...
    Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia. The book tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years. It describes how the Spice trade into Europe came to be dominated by Middle Eastern and Venetian merchants. Backed by the Crowns of Portugal and Spain explorers such as Columbus, Vasco da Gama and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time

    by Edward Everett Hale ...
    This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • History of the Philippine Islands

    by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Antonio de Morga ...
    In this volume is presented the first installment of Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Events here described cover the years 1493-1603, and the history proper of the islands from 1565. Morga's work is important, as being written by a royal official and a keen observer and participator in affairs. Consequently he touches more on the practical everyday affairs of the islands, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Magellan

    Over the Edge of the World

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    A "richly researched and highly readable" young-adult adaptation of Laurence Bergreen's bestseller about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe ( School Library Journal).On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden sailors appeared on the horizon near a Spanish port. They were survivors of the first European expedition to circle the globe. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD