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Die Geschichte vom Seefahrer und Entdecker Ferdinand Magellan (portugiesisch Fernão de Magalhães und spanisch Fernando de Magallanes; 1480 - 1521), die Stefan Zweig hier behandelt, ist sowohl geschichtlich informativ und interessant, wie auch literarisch gelungen und spannend erzählt. Es gelingt Zweig, einen historischen Stoff, der in unserer heutigen Zeit nicht selten als langweilig und altbacken eingestuft wird, derart interessant und mit viel Spannung zu versehen, dass man das Buch kaum mehr loslassen wird, wenn es denn einmal begonnen wurde. Der Hauptdarsteller und tragische Held dieser Geschichte ist natürlich der Entdecker und Abenteurer Fernando Magellan, der, von innerem Drang und Überzeugung angetrieben, eine "Expedition" initiiert die erste Weltumsegelung.

Read Online Magellan Der Mann und seine Tat German Edition eBook Stefan Zweig

"Brilliant narrative of the beginning of the modern era. By encircling the Earth, humans later came to erroneously believe they owned it. Sad."

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Magellan Der Mann und seine Tat German Edition eBook Stefan Zweig Reviews

• Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. He is the one who named the Pacific Ocean (“peaceful sea”) for the calmness of its water and the lack of wind. Although he wasn't alive to complete the entire journey himself after he was killed in a rather unnecessary battle with a local king in the Philippines, the expedition that he once led resulted in the first circumnavigation of the earth. Needless to say, the journey wasn't smooth and clear skies all along otherwise there would hardly be a reason to write a full book about this expedition. Magellan had to overcome the Portuguese king who tried to sabotage this voyage, the mutiny of his crew, hunger, thirst and very harsh weather. Oh, yeah, he also lost his life.
  
  Zweig and his stirring prose style seem well suited for the task of writing about this dramatic expedition. Just consider this, for example “His native country left him in the lurch; his ties with office and duty had been severed. So much the better, now he was free. As so often when a man seems to be at the mercy of the winds, he is in reality being blown back upon his own self.”
  
  In his novels, Zweig tends to focus in the psychological aspects of his characters. What drove them and why they acted the way they did. This shows in his biography of Magellan. He portrays him as a quiet introvert and as a very calculated man who rarely made any decision without considering the long term; he was also fairly harsh (at least according to our standards today), but yet very fair.
  
  Zweig doesn't dwell too much into to the details of each and every small thing that happened. Along with his dramatic and enjoyable prose style, "Magellan" reads more like one of Zweig’s novels.
• I've read this book several times in the past. Now we decided to have one in our home library. A very good storyteller wrote this book many years ago. It is based on the thorough review of documents and thus is quite accurate. Stefan Zweig is one of the best writers of XX century and I would recommend reading this book to anyone interested in the history of Great Explorations.
• Fascinating history + the Zweig style. Very interesting and revealing about the times and personalities of Magellan and his world.
• Historically very informative. I purchased it because of my interest an acquaintance with Stefan Zweig's other works.
  The translation from the German is stilted.
• Outstanding biography written by an excellent author. Sad that he had to leave Austria like so many other German intelectuals during the Nazi regime into emigration. I Love all of his biographies. He gave his life away fare too early.
• Brilliant narrative of the beginning of the modern era. By encircling the Earth, humans later came to erroneously believe they owned it. Sad.
• Zweig was a brilliant writer, his death was a tragedy.
• Fantastic adventure of the time of the great navigations, where we can have notion of the adversities that have passed these adventurers.