02435cam a2200349 4500 468413967 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300220865 0300220863 B01G5SM2O2 Amazon 96362a1d-adc4-4f5a-9371-94d35451b74c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2772956 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kelsey, Harry, 1929- The First Circumnavigators [Libby eBook] : Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery. Yale University Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4316kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 4316kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Portugal. Spain. HTML:<p>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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96362a1d-adc4-4f5a-9371-94d35451b74c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96362a1d-adc4-4f5a-9371-94d35451b74c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96362a1d-adc4-4f5a-9371-94d35451b74c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)