Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...

Magellan’s Voyage—Search for the Spice Islands, a documentary commemorating the first circumnavigation of the globe, has been licensed by ZDF Enterprises to the New York public broadcaster WNET.

Historian Laurence Bergreen joins Host Larry Mantle to tell the tale of the greatest maritime voyage of discovery, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, from 1519-1522. It has been over ...

Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522, the greatest expedition of the Age of Discovery and the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe, was a single Englishman. Andrew of Bristol ...

When we talk about the first circumnavigation of the world, it might be difficult to apprehend the vast picture, of all those sailings, uncharted oceans, and daring explorers chasing the horizon. So, ...

This biography of Ferdinand Magellan, who in 1519 commanded the "most remarkable and perilous [voyage] in seafaring history," rarely captures the drama of its subject. Not only does the pageantry of ...

Almost all of what is currently known about the first circumnavigation of the world, one of mankind’s greatest achievements, is from the writings of Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian born explorer who ...

Author Natacha Sanz-Caballero publishes "I Was the First: The Incredible True Story of the First Voyage Around the World", on the 500th anniversary of the trip On the decks of their small ships, the ...

Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite facing mutinies, starvation, and storms, his fleet discovered a passage through ...