The Great Explorers

N.A. Basovskaya’s new book is devoted to those very people because of whom we know that beyond the horizon the world doesn’t merely continue to exist—it is astonishingly diverse. Once he dared to leave his native shore, Christopher Columbus discovered America and… ended up in a book by a wonderful historian.

Also here are the discoverer of the strait Fernand Magellan and Nunez de Balboa—the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and to name the coastal lands Peru. And in 1517, despite the great discoveries, he was beheaded.