Raymond Carr

A ghastly crew

issue 07 February 2004

  • Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    Laurence Bergreen

    HarperCollins, pp. 456

In September 1519 the Armada de Molucca of five ships and 250 sailors had set out from San L

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