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Magellan's Unlikely Explorers: Stories of the First Circumnavigation

Magellan's Unlikely Explorers: Stories of the First Circumnavigation

Sailors, John

Paperback

Exploration

ISBN10: 1938688198
ISBN13: 9781938688195
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Magellan's Unlikely Explorers follows the first circumnavigation through stories of the far-fetched individuals who joined the expedition. This was a three-year voyage that circled the globe, crossing a swatch of world-changing history along the way. Among its crew were Antonio Pigafetta, the Italian scholar who passing through Spain just happened to hear about a fleet being prepared, and went on to write its history; Duarte Barbosa, Magellan's relation by marriage and key ally when not shackled after going AWOL with local women; Joãozito Lopes Carvalho, a young boy who became the first native of Brazil to cross the Pacific; and Enrique of Malacca, a teenage Malay slave who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe linguistically, and possibly altogether.

Magellan's enterprise was anything but normal. Magellan sought to travel to the East by sailing west, then navigate waters that Christopher Columbus and others had failed to cross. Along the way he fought intrigue, sabotage, and mutiny including from the Spanish officials originally charged with backing him. In the end, Magellan crossed the Pacific to reach the Visayan Islands (modern-day Philippines), there providing empirical evidence that the world was round and could be circled. And after Magellan's death at Mactan, a handful of his unlikely crew decided to continue eastward to complete what became the first fully recorded circuit of the globe.

The stories of the individuals who completed the journey and those lost along the way show how implausible the expedition was. Cast of characters:

- Antonio Pigafetta

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