Laurence Bergreen

(1950) Historian

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Laurence Bergreen is a historian.

Quick Facts About Laurence Bergreen

Born: February 4, 1950
Profession: Historian

About Laurence Bergreen

[Wikidata] American biographer, historian (b. 1950)... | [Wikipedia] Laurence Bergreen is an American popular historian biographer known for his narrative accounts of exploration, science, and cultural history. His works, which include biographies of Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, and Louis Armstrong, as well as studies of NASA’s Mars missions, have been widely read

Quotes by Laurence Bergreen

“Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.”

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“On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon … A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the strange…

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Discovery

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“Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa,…

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Family

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“There was one other distraction on the island of Gomera: Doña Beatriz de Bobadilla. Or, as she was known in the Canaries,…

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“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original…

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Christianity

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“It was not that he lacked discipline, or the support of the men; the problem was that Espinosa, a soldier, was simply…

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Discipline

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“Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced…

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