Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Smiler Levinson is the author of many well-regarded books for children, including Christopher Columbus: Voyager to the Unknown (Lodestar) and If You Lived in the Alaska Territory (Scholastic). This is her first book for Clarion. She lives in Beverly Hills, California. Zusammenfassung Determined to find a new and better route to Asia and the distant and profitable Spice Islands, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519 on what would become the history-making first circumnavigation of the world. Magellan himself did not complete the journey—he was killed by a poison arrow while on the Pacific island of Mactan—but the expedition he mounted forever changed the course of human exploration. Details of the journey, including Magellan’s tools of navigation, the political battles for control over the valuable islands of the Pacific, and Magellan’s final moments in battle, are all vividly portrayed

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Smiler Levinson
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780395987735
• ISBN: 978-0-395-98773-5
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / United States / 19th Century, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / Inventions, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / Europe, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Readers / Intermediate, kid;history;nonfiction