| Description |
1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Author's Notes; 1 A Knife's Handiwork; 2 Away; 3 The Warning; 4 Fickle Sea; 5 The Unexpected Warrior; 6 Dubious Passage; 7 Tiller and Sail; 8 Easter Night; 9 Chained; 10 Blade of Inquisition; 11 Port San Julian; 12 The Captain-General's Judgment; 13 Bay of Eleven Thousand Virgins; 14 Insatiable Ocean; 15 The First Islands; 16 Humabon's Land; 17 The Fallen; 18 Carvalho's Choices; 19 The Victoria's Captain; 20 Realm of Almanzor; 21 The Valediction; 22 Homebound Winds; 23 A Grievous Toll; 24 The Request; 25 A Worthy Visitor |
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EpilogueGlossary of Principal Characters; The Author |
| Summary |
This novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New World to the west. What he and his crew of Basque, Portuguese and Spanish men found was death, hardship and glory |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521 -- Fiction
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Elcano, Juan Sebastián de, approximately 1476-1526 -- Fiction
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Elcano, Juan Sebastián de, approximately 1476-1526 fast |
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Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521 fast |
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Explorers -- Fiction
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Voyages around the world -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Explorers
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Voyages around the world
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780870044809 |
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087004480X |
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