Ferdinand MagellanProvides an introduction to the life of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who found a passage for ships to sail west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ferdinand Magellan Fact Finders Biographies: Great Explorers Series Fact Finders Fact finders: Biographies |
| Author | Mervyn D. Kaufman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Capstone, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0736824871, 9780736824873 |
| Length | 32 pages |
| Subjects | › › Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Exploration & Discovery |
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