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Magellan
The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizonThe Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe although he was killed en route in a battle with natives in the Phillipines In this biography Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery by telling the tale of one of the era's most daring adventurers In typically flowing and elegant prose he takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery ourselvesStefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled
widely living in Salzburg between the wars and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok and Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press
widely living in Salzburg between the wars and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok and Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press
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