Who would you choose to judge you long after your death? How about a professional historian? How about Felipe Fernández-Armesto? Much lauded and read, this professor of history at Notre Dame, Indiana is the author of many books including short histories of humankind and the world and longer ones of exploration, Hispanic America and the year 1492.
Horatio Clare
Another fallen idol: the myth of Ferdinand Magellan debunked
Far from being a noble adventurer, he was a cruel, reckless traitor who never circumnavigated the world, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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