Magellan's Voyage : A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation

by Antonio Pigafetta

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On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First show more Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature.This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared. show less

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A primeira viagem ao redor do mundo é considerado pelo escritor Gabriel García Márquez como um dos livros mais importantes da sua vida.

Em agosto de 1519, o navegador português Fernão de Magalhães içou âncoras do porto de Sevilha, a serviço da Coroa espanhola. Tinha início a primeira viagem ao redor do mundo, que descobriria novas rotas de navegação e alteraria todos os mapas da Terra existentes até então. Ele comandava cinco navios e 237 homens. Embarcado como representante da corte de Roma na expedição espanhola, Antonio Pigafetta (1491? - 1534), marinheiro toscano da cidade de Vicenza, sobreviveu à terrível viagem e celebrizou-se por ter sido o cronista da grande aventura.

De Sevilha cruzaram aquele que seria show more posteriormente batizado de Estreito de Magalhães, descobriram o maior oceano da Terra (o Pacífico), passaram pela Ásia - onde Magalhães foi tragicamente morto por nativos filipinos -, contornaram a África e então regressaram à Espanha, em setembro de 1522. A armada havia sido reduzida a um só navio, o Victoria, e dezoito homens famintos, entre eles Pigafetta. O relato da viagem por ele escrito foi publicado em Veneza, em 1536 (dois anos após sua morte), e obteve sucesso instantâneo ao contar com vigor e precisão as privações e desventuras nas quais se viu envolvida uma das mais importantes expedições de descobrimento da história. show less
A really interesting read. You do have to take much of it with a pinch of salt and that of course leaves you wondering about the veracity of the stuff that seems genuine, but none-the-less a fascinating journal.
Un libro muy interesante que refleja como vivió Antonio Pigafetta el viaje junto a Magallanes y Elcano, cuando dieron la primera vuelta al mundo.
O diário da expedição de Fernão de Magalhães
Colección Viajes Clásicos nº 9
Rústica editorial con solapas.
Muy buen estado.
Libro en base a los documentos que dejaron los expedicionarios

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Primer viaje alrededor del globo.
Original publication date
1969
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Ferdinand Magellan; Antonio Pigafetta
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Tierra del Fuego
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Travel, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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910.4History & geographyGeography & travelmodified standard subdivisions of Geography and travelPirates & Shipwrecks
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G420 .M2 .P6113Geography, Anthropology and RecreationGeography (General)Special voyages and travels
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