Magellan - The Man and his Achievement

This is the biography of Ferdinand Magellan, the first man to circumnavigate the globe. Stefan Zweig's virtuosity describes the man and his feat in great detail and with wonderful narrative power, alongside the historical circumstances in which this Portuguese voyager, great among the greatest, made his journey. Magallanes in Spanish, Magellan in English, Magellan was and is, truly, a universal man and a unique figure of his time.