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by Stuart Waldman Illustrated by Greg Manchess |
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Magellan's World 10" x 10" 48 pages, Color, Gatefold US $22.95 |
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 pain had everything to gain. Portugal dominated the wildly lucrative spice trade, and Spain was desperate for a piece of the action. Ferdinand Magellan had nothing to lose. After ten years of fighting for Portugal, he was left with little money, a crippled knee and his king’s withering scorn. Magellan’s need to make a success of his life matched Spain’s desire for spice trade wealth. The result was the first voyage around the world. As dangerous as the high-stakes, high-risk spice-seeking expedition appeared to be at the outset, the reality proved to be much worse. Magellan was guided by maps that were ten centuries out of date and thousands of miles wrong. The inaccuracies cost him dearly. Hunger, mutiny, murder, and disease dogged the three-year voyage, and Magellan was driven to ever greater extremes of brilliance, brutality, and madness as he struggled to keep his ships on course. Magellan gambled and lost. His voyage ended in tragedy for him, but the world was changed forever.  THE READ-ALONGTM MAP For both the explorer and the reader, the key element of any voyage of discovery is the map. While the explorer can have the map in front of him, the reader usually cannot. There's nothing more frustrating than having to flip back to read a map in the middle of reading a story. For this book, Mikaya Press has designed a Read-AlongTM Map. This gatefold page makes it possible to read about an explorer's travels, and follow them on a map at the same time. | ||||