Once Upon A Town by Bob Greene

NOTE: We will meet in person as well as having the virtual option for this gathering. Bring your own beverage, snacks, and lawn chair to meet with us at Greenwood Park at 4500 Grand Ave. Des Moines, if weather permits. Our B plan will be my house at 1107 45th if it rains.

There is also a virtual option with a zoom link available. Please email me sherry@storiedgifts.com for the link!

Here is a description of the book.
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself.