by Stefan Zweig · CAPITAN SWING S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494966859
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«Magallanes: El hombre y su gesta» is Stefan Zweig's biographical essay, published by Capitán Swing in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Zweig reconstructs the expedition with which Magellan convinced Charles I and which culminated in the first circumnavigation of the globe. He recounts the voyage of five ships and 265 men, with mutinies, hunger, cold and cartographic errors, and the return of eighteen survivors in an improvised vessel. A documented account, it pays tribute to the navigator's feat.
Work originally published in 1938 as «Magellan: Der Mann und seine Tat»; Spanish edition translated from German by José Fernández. Belongs to the Essay collection.
For audiences interested in history, biography and navigation; the indicated interest age is 17 and up.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
