by Stefan Zweig · Editorial Juventud, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426101860
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«Magallanes: El hombre y su gesta» is the historical biography by Stefan Zweig, published by Editorial Juventud in paperback (216 pages).
Stefan Zweig narrates the life of Ferdinand Magellan and the expedition that, in the service of Castile, sought a route to the spice trade by sailing west. The account follows the search for the passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific and culminates in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, a feat that proved for the first time the roundness of the globe.
The work was originally published in 1938 as «Magellan: Der Mann und seine Tat»; the Spanish edition belongs to the Biografías collection of Editorial Juventud.
For readers of historical biographies and accounts of maritime exploration, voyages, and discoveries.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
