The First Circumnavigators
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Author |
: Harry Kelsey |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2016-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300220865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300220863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Circumnavigators by : Harry Kelsey
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.
Author |
: Harry Kelsey |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2016-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300217780 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300217781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Circumnavigators by : Harry Kelsey
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 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.
Author |
: Joyce E. Chaplin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2013-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416596202 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416596208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Round About the Earth by : Joyce E. Chaplin
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Author |
: Antonio Pigafetta |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802093707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802093701 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522 by : Antonio Pigafetta
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.
Author |
: Don Holm |
Publisher |
: Angus & Robertson |
Total Pages |
: 588 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015001800229 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Circumnavigators by : Don Holm
Author |
: Derek Wilson |
Publisher |
: Robinson |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2013-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472113290 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472113292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Brief History of Circumnavigators by : Derek Wilson
"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 |
: Vito Dumas |
Publisher |
: Clinton Corners, N.Y. : J. de Graff |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036807043 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Voyages in Small Boats by : Vito Dumas
Author |
: David Laing Purves |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 856 |
Release |
: 1874 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600013883 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Circumnavigators by : David Laing Purves
Author |
: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: ZBZH:ZBZ-00100222 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1480-1521 by : Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Author |
: Peter Nichols |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061868405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 006186840X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Voyage For Madmen by : Peter Nichols
“An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.” — Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, comes a breathtaking oceanic adventure about an obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance. In 1968 nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held and never before completed: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death. Gorgeously written and meticulously researched by author Peter Nichols, this extraordinary book chronicles the contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms, and of those riveting moments when a decision means the difference between life and death.