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Showing Ferdinand Magellan's ruhles side.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
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November 23, 2003
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Byline: Duncan Spencer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
What kind of a guy was Magellan anyhow? This not-so-burning question is the subject of Laurence Bergreen's new biography of the great navigator and explorer. A Harvard-educated journalist who has written biographies of Louis Armstrong, Al Capone and Irving Berlin, Mr. Bergreen has clearly learned the lesson of popular culture - stick to the mayhem whenever possible.
He's turned Ferdinand Magellan into a kind of action hero, but not a very nice one. Magellan, in this telling, was a ruthless ...
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