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The First Circumnavigators - Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery (Hardcover)
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The First Circumnavigators - Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery (Hardcover)
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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.
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