Magellan
- ISBN-10
- 0070331286
- ISBN-13
- 9780070331280
- Series
- Magellan
- Category
- Voyages around the world
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- International Marine Publishing Company
- Author
- Tim Joyner
Description
"In this stirring account of an epic voyage beset by shipwreck, desertions, scurvy, and hunger, (Magellan) emerges as an all-too-human hero who tested the limits of the possible."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Other editions
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- 2001-07
- 48 pages
- Paperback
- Capstone
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