Black cloth on boards, Picture Plate on front cover. Owners name on ffep. Stamped as Sample Copy. Volume is clean, spine slightly loose, but pages are tight. Pictorial maps on endpapers. Cover shows little wear. "Ferdinand Magellan, who started from Seville with five little ships to circumnavigate the globe. Was not this the most glorious odyssey in the history of mankind? The departure of two-hundred and sixty-five men, of whom only EIGHTEEN got back to Spain, on ONE crumbling vessel, but with the flag of triumph flying at the masthead."

History, True Adventure, Non-Fiction, Travel, Explorers, Ferdinand Magellan