Magellan

Conqueror of the Seas

Estratto voce virtuale

Impossibile aggiungere al carrello

Puoi avere soltanto 50 titoli nel carrello per il checkout.

Riprova più tardi

Rimozione dalla Lista desideri non riuscita.

Riprova più tardi

Non è stato possibile aggiungere il titolo alla Libreria

Per favore riprova

Non è stato possibile seguire il Podcast

Per favore riprova

Esecuzione del comando Non seguire più non riuscita

Ascolta ora gratuitamente con il tuo abbonamento Audible

Iscriviti ora

Dopo 30 giorni (60 per i membri Prime), 9,99 €/mese. Puoi cancellare ogni mese

Ascolta senza limiti migliaia di audiolibri, podcast e serie originali

Disponibile su ogni dispositivo, anche senza connessione

9,99 € al mese. Puoi cancellare ogni mese.

Magellan

Di: Stefan Zweig

Letto da: AI Voice Charles Owen

Iscriviti ora

Dopo 30 giorni (60 per i membri Prime), 9,99 €/mese. Cancella quando vuoi.

Acquista ora a 14,07 €

Questo titolo è stato narrato da una voce virtuale

La voce virtuale è generata da un computer, e viene utilizzata per la narrazione degli audiolibri.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Stefan Zweig published Magellan in 1938, writing from English exile as Europe collapsed into nationalism. He'd fled Austria after the Nazi annexation, watching the cosmopolitan continent he valued being destroyed. The timing shaped the book: Magellan—Portuguese navigator serving Spanish crown, commanding multinational crew, proving through voyage that the world was one sphere—embodied the internationalist humanism Zweig believed fascism was destroying.

Zweig's method was literary rather than scholarly, synthesizing existing sources (primarily Pigafetta's eyewitness account) into compelling narrative with psychological depth. This has strengths and limitations: vivid characterization and readability versus speculative psychology and romanticization.

The book follows Magellan from rejection by Portugal through organizing the expedition against opposition, the mutinies that nearly destroyed it, the harrowing Pacific crossing (months without land, crews eating leather and rats), to his death in an unnecessary colonial skirmish in the Philippines. One ship returned to Spain in 1522, circumnavigation complete though Magellan hadn't survived to see it.

Reading it means encountering both historical figure and Zweig's 1938 anxieties about nationalism and individual vision. Zweig would die by suicide in 1942, despairing at Europe's catastrophe. His historical biographies represent attempts to preserve humanistic values while fascism triumphed.

Literary biography at its most accessible, though not definitive history. His limitations reflect his era; his strengths explain why his works remain in print. He succeeded at what he attempted: bringing historical figures to life, making the past immediate, demonstrating that human determination could accomplish the impossible—a faith composed while fascism destroyed it.

Avventurieri, esploratori e survival

Storico

Avventurieri, esploratori e survival Storico

Ancora nessuna recensione