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Author Kelsey, Harry, 1929- author.

Title The first circumnavigators : unsung heroes of the age of discovery / Harry Kelsey.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 214 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521.
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521.
Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526.
Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526.
Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529.
Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, -1529.
Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544.
Villalobos, Ruy López de, 1500?-1544.
Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572.
Legazpi, Miguel López de, 1510?-1572.
Drake, Francis, Sir, -1637.
Drake, Francis, Sir, -1637.
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.
Voyages around the world -- History.
Voyages around the world.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kelsey, Harry, 1929- First circumnavigators. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016] 0300217781 9780300217780
ISBN 9780300220865 (electronic book)
0300220863 (electronic book)
9780300217780
0300217781