Top 3 Laurence Bergreen Quotes
#1. The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.
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#2. Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.
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#3. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.
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