EAN: 9781526632104

STRAITS - FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022
_______________ 'Rigorous  deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The
ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph _______________ For
centuries  Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who
circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery  a paragon of daring and
chivalry. Now historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to
conduct a dazzling investigation into Magellan's life  his character and his ill-fated voyage.
He reveals that Magellan did not attempt - much less accomplish - a journey around the globe 
and that in his own lifetime  the explorer was abhorred as a traitor  reviled as a tyrant and
dismissed as a failure. Fernández-Armesto probes the passions and tensions that drove Magellan
to adventure and drew him to disaster: the pride that became arrogance  audacity that became
recklessness  determination that became ruthlessness  romanticism that became irresponsibility
and superficial piety that became  in adversity  irrational exaltation. And as the real
Magellan emerges  so too do his true ambitions  focused less on circumnavigating the world or
cornering the global spice market than on exploiting Filipino gold. Offering up a stranger 
darker and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been glorified
for half a millennium  Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero. _______________

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