Over the Edge of the World Author:Laurence Bergreen In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than 200 men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan. Bestselling author Laurence Bergreen takes readers on a spellbinding voyage as he interweaves a varie... more »ty of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailabel in English. Over the Edge of the World is a captavating tale of a tenacious captain and the most daring discovery of an era.« less