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 ...

The explorer died on a Philippines beach in April 1521, joining the scores who perished in Spain's quest to circumnavigate the globe. At the southernmost tip of South America lies a perilous strait ...

The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...

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 ...

DEATH SAILS WITH MAGELLAN — Charles Ford—Random House ($2.50). Off the Islands of the Kings (Guam) . . . we found a Gallegan whose name was Gonzalo of Vigo who said he had been left in those lands for ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — For the second consecutive year, New Bedford is welcoming the Nao Trinidad, a replica of the 16th-century tall ship that sailed with Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet on its ...

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 ...