Laurence Bergreen
Birth date: February 04, 1950
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This book follows Marco Polo’s life from birth to death. We all know of his famed opus Travels, recounting his travels to China, South East Asia and India. He left with his father and uncle at the age of 17 in 1271. They returned 24 years later. What is fact and what is fiction of his stories, writt...
I meant to write notes for this book, but it never really happened. This book has a little bit of everything in it. It is clearly a history book, but at the same time there's information about religion, marriage, sexual practices (Marco got a little side tracked by women at times). Much of the book ...
I really hadn't expected Magellan to die when he did. It's almost sad that that's all I can really say at the moment. He lost sight of what he was meant to be doing and focused on converting the natives to Christianity! He might have made it to the spice islands if he hadn't gotten so sidetracked. T...
Like many others, I was unaware of Columbus's other voyages until reading this book. I wasn't really surprised that he'd made more than one voyage, I just wasn't really aware of them before this book.I really enjoyed Laurence Bergreen's writing style and plan on reading some of his other books (Marc...
Popular history at its best, 'Over the Edge of the World' makes good use of the rich primary source material for Magellon's expedition and Bergreen doesn't stint on any adventurous detail.It's a tricky feat to put out a readable history book that stands up under academic scrutiny. There's a lot of t...
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