About the book
The voyage that first carried ships around the globe is the subject of Stefan Zweig's biography of Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator who led it. In 1518, a quarter century after Columbus, the exiled Magellan persuaded King Charles I of Spain to give him a fleet to explore the sea between Asia and America. At 39 he commanded five ships and 265 men, and the expedition met mutiny, cold, hunger, rivalries and errors in its charts. Zweig tells the story like an adventure novel while sketching the economic and political conditions of the early sixteenth century.
Ryan Holiday recommended it for inspiration and excitement, for its question of what makes someone an explorer, and suggested it might be the book Zweig was born to write.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Now if you’re looking for some inspiration and excitement, Magellan is the book for you. What makes a man an explorer? What made Magellan so he could find a passage he had no reason to be certain he could find? And how thankless a job! [...] There are some books where you feel like everything the writer did led up to this masterpiece they were born to create: that might be what this book is. It’s just perfect in every sense. Cannot recommend highly enough.
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