The first voyage round the world, by Magellan / edited by Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903.

Hakluyt Society.

Series:

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 52.

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521.

Magalhães, Fernão de.

Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.

Voyages around the world.

Physical Description:

1 v. (various pagings) : ill., facsims., map, port.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The text is translated 'from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and other Contemporary Writers. Accompanied by Original Documents, with Notes and an Introduction'. It includes the log-book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro, Pigafetta's treatise on navigation and his account of the voyage, Gaspar Correa's account, other anonymous narratives, and documents relating to the cost and other aspects of the expedition. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.

Contents:

chapter The Gnoese Pilot's Account of Magellan's Voyage

chapter Narrative of the Anonymous Portuguese

chapter Pigafetta's Account of Magellan's Voyage

chapter Pigafetta's Treatise of Navigation

chapter Names of the First Circumnavigators

chapter Magellan's Order of the Day in the Straits

chapter Letter of Maximillian, the Transylvan

chapter Log-Book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro

chapter Account of the ''Trinity

chapter Account of the Mutiny in Port St. Julian, and Gaspar Correa's account of the Voyage

chapter Cost of Magellan's Fleet.

Notes:

"Translated from the accounts of Pigafetta and other contemporary writers."--Added t.p.

First published by Ashgate Pub.

Reprint. Originally published: London, 1874.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Pigafetta, Antonio, ca. 1480-ca. 1534. Primo viaggio intorno al globo terraqueo. English.

ISBN:

1-317-03169-5

1-315-55812-2

1-282-86007-0

9786612860072

1-4094-1558-9

9781315558127

OCLC:

929146822