Book ID: CBB042978462

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery (2016)

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Kelsey, H. (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 240
Language: English

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.

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Review Kris Alexanderson (2017) Review of "The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery". Journal of Early Modern History (pp. 478-481). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Silva, M. Céu
Collins, Edward
Rodríguez-Antón, Andrea
Nicolai, Roel
Gesteira, Heloisa Meireles
Sandman, Alison
Concepts
Navigation
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Geography
Spain, colonies
Crafts and craftspeople
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
Early modern
18th century
15th century
Places
Portugal
Spain
Africa
Atlantic world
Atlantic Ocean
England
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