Rogue sailor
Jun 12, 2022
2 minutes
by NIK DIRGA
STRAITS: BEYOND THE MYTH OF MAGELLAN, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Bloomsbury, $39.99)
Ferdinand Magellan was a failure. The explorer, famed for circumnavigating the globe for the first time, didn’t even survive to finish that feat. His mission was a series of mistakes compounded by deceit and arrogance, writes British historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto in his provocative revisionist biography.
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