Over the Edge of the World

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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Copyright © 2003 by Laurence Bergreen. Introduction © Laurence Bergreen 2019. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2004.

FIRST WILLIAM MORROW PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED 2019.

Cover design by Richard L. Aquan

Cover images: map from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University; seascape photograph courtesy of Jon Diamond; inset of ship and portrait of Magellan from the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Bergreen, Laurence.

Over the edge of the world: Magellan’s terrifying circumnavigation of the globe/Laurence Bergreen.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-621173-5

1. Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521—Journeys. 2. Explorers—Portugal— Biography. 3. Voyages around the world. I. Title.

G420.M2B47 2003

910’.92–dc21 [B] 2003050143

Digital Edition JULY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-186588-6

Version 03112020

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-6289048-1