“Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.” — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon … A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the strange ship over the reefs … The vessel they were guiding into the harbor was manned by a skeleton crew of just eighteen sailors and three captives, all of them severely malnourished. … Their captain was dead, as were… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share
“Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“There was one other distraction on the island of Gomera: Doña Beatriz de Bobadilla. Or, as she was known in the Canaries, “Bobadilla the… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original name Pigafetta… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“It was not that he lacked discipline, or the support of the men; the problem was that Espinosa, a soldier, was simply not qualified… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced replacement. From… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
