Laurence Bergreen

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1) Over the edge of the world: Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe

Author

Bergreen, Laurence

Language

English

2) Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu

Author

Bergreen, Laurence

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

3) Columbus: the four voyages

Author

Bergreen, Laurence

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

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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 demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...

4) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire

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Bergreen, Laurence

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history--as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--...