The Circumnavigators
Author: Don Holm
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 588
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Author: Don Holm
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1416596208
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Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2013-08-22
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1472113292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within the spirit of the explorer. The story of circumnavigation is thus a long saga of human adventure, travel and discovery. Beginning with the fateful day in 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan was speared to death on Mactan and Juan de Elcano took up the challenge of bringing his surviving companions home, the story continues through four centuries crammed with astonishing exploits by men and women of many nations. Some of the names that feature are well-known, others less so.
Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780786711505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the evolution of circumnavigation from economic necessity, to scientific endeavor, to pure sport, and describes the larger-than-life characters who made it their trade. Reprint.
Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: M. Evans
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, John Byron, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, James Cook, Thomas and Alice Brassey, and Frances Chichester, among others.
Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: Constable Limited
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 360
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Author: Vito Dumas
Publisher: Clinton Corners, N.Y. : J. de Graff
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Kelsey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-06-28
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0300220863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior 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.
Author: Harry Kelsey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0300217781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior 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 trans global 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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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 554
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