The First Circumnavigators
Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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 transglobal 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.
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.
Subjects:
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, Sir, -1637.
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.
Voyages around the world -- History.
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, Sir, -1637.
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.
Voyages around the world -- History.
ISBN:
0300217781
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.