Crompton, Samuel Willard.

Ferdinand Magellan : and the quest to circle the globe / Samuel Willard Crompton. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006. - xvii, 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. - Explorers of new lands .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-134) and index.

Presents a comprehensive study of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his quest to find the Spice Islands of the Far East and to circumnavigate the globe.

6.1 5-8 Follett Library Resources

0791086089

2005007520


Magellan, Ferdinand, d. 1521.


Voyages around the world.
Explorers--Portugal--Biography.

G420.M2 / C76 2005

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