Sails of fortune [electronic resource] / by Christine Echeverria Bender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bender, Christine Echeverria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521--Fiction.

Magalhães, Fernão de.

Elcano, Juan Sebastián de, approximately 1476-1526.

Elcano, Juan Sebastián de.

Voyages around the world--History--16th century.

Voyages around the world.

Explorers--Fiction.

Explorers.

Basques--Fiction.

Basques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Place of Publication:

Caldwell, Id. : Caxton Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New World to the west. What he and his crew of Basque, Portuguese and Spanish men found was death, hardship and glory.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Author's Notes; 1 A Knife's Handiwork; 2 Away; 3 The Warning; 4 Fickle Sea; 5 The Unexpected Warrior; 6 Dubious Passage; 7 Tiller and Sail; 8 Easter Night; 9 Chained; 10 Blade of Inquisition; 11 Port San Julian; 12 The Captain-General's Judgment; 13 Bay of Eleven Thousand Virgins; 14 Insatiable Ocean; 15 The First Islands; 16 Humabon's Land; 17 The Fallen; 18 Carvalho's Choices; 19 The Victoria's Captain; 20 Realm of Almanzor; 21 The Valediction; 22 Homebound Winds; 23 A Grievous Toll; 24 The Request; 25 A Worthy Visitor

EpilogueGlossary of Principal Characters; The Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-87508-9

9786613716392

0-87004-480-X

OCLC:

797915709