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"In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation."-- Full description
Table of Contents:
- Fear. Magellan agonistes ; A world encompassed ; Traffic ; Terrestriality
- First entr'acte
- Confidence. A tolerable risk ; Faster
- faster ; The Club of Eccentrics ; Pure pleasure
- Second entr'acte
- Doubt. Flight ; The outer limits ; Army and Navy surplus ; Magellan redivivus.