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Title
The first circumnavigators
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Kelsey, Harry, 1929- (author)
Subject
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521
Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526
Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529
Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544
Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592
Voyages around the world--History (LCSH)
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596
Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526
Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521
Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529
Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544
Voyages around the world
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English (eng)
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Classification
DDC: 910.9 full (Source: 23)
LCC: G419 .K45 2016 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
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Summary
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial trans global voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in European and American archives, offers fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion, sickness, and starvation but also of courage, dogged persistence, leadership, and loyalty.
Table Of Contents
The voyage of Magellan
The voyages of Loaisa and Saavedra
The voyage of Villalobos
The Voyage of Legazpi
Following the leader
Appendix. The circumnavigators.
Authorized Access Point
Kelsey, Harry, 1929- The first circumnavigators
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