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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
ISBN
9780300217780

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300217781
ISBN-13
9780300217780
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219149589

Product Key Features

Book Title
First Circumnavigators : Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Adventurers & Explorers, Europe / Spain & Portugal, World, Europe / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Harry Kelsey
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-930472
Reviews
"This book is a thorough and well-written narrative based upon the original journals of early seamen who circumnavigated the globe. Harry Kelsey has put life into the men who sailed on these voyages, detailing the hardships they suffered, the food they ate, the dangers they faced, the natives they met, and the fights they had. In sum, much that goes beyond popular accounts to explain the remarkable and daring accomplishments of sixteenth-century explorers who searched the world for riches--both real and imagined--are contained in these pages."--Iris Engstrand, University of San Diego, "There are few historians who have mastered the source material pertaining to this period to the extent that Kelsey has. A wonderful read for anyone interested in the history of world exploration."--John Johnson, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, " The First Circumnavigators is an old-fashioned, spume-flecked work of history. Kelsey's main concern is with the mariner's themselves, and the timber hulks in which they rode the waves. He provides revealing evidence not only of the physical hardships of life at sea, but also of the psychological attrition"--David Gelber, Literary Review, "Through an exhaustive search of original documents, the author has put life into nearly every person who sailed on these early voyages."--Iris Engstrand, University of San Diego
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
910.4109031
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
G420

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