The First Circumnavigators : Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery / Harry Kelsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelsey, Harry, 1929- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps

Introduction

One. The Voyage of Magellan

Two. The Voyages of Loaisa and Saavedra

Three. The Voyage of Villalobos

Four. The Voyage of Legazpi

Five. Following the Leader

Appendix: The Circumnavigators

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-22086-3

OCLC:

950613571