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On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to
become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to
the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known
through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned
to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of
the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from
Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good
Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of
discovery and exploration literature. This volume is based on the
critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive
introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J.
Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through
allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as
Shakespeare and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. However, Cachey is careful
to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled
travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a
remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the
circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among
modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between
Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely
illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure
to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the
story has done since it first appeared.
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