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1 online resource (xix, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The voyage of Magellan -- The voyages of Loaisa and Saavedra -- The voyage of Villalobos -- The Voyage of Legazpi -- Following the leader -- Appendix. The circumnavigators. |
| 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 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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Vendor-supplied metadata. |
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Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521.
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Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526.
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Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529.
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Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544.
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Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572.
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Drake, Francis, Sir, -1637.
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Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.
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Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592. (OCoLC)fst00018672
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Drake, Francis, Sir, -1637. (OCoLC)fst01816363
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Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526. (OCoLC)fst01827200
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Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572. (OCoLC)fst01598933
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Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521. (OCoLC)fst01832186
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Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529. (OCoLC)fst01955013
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Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544. (OCoLC)fst00164546
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Voyages around the world -- History.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries.
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HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
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HISTORY -- Maritime History & Piracy.
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Voyages around the world. (OCoLC)fst01169326
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelsey, Harry, 1929- First circumnavigators. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016] 0300217781 9780300217780 |
| ISBN |
9780300220865 (electronic bk.) |
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0300220863 (electronic bk.) |
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