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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

An upcoming film set in the Philippines’ pre-colonial period has cast Danny Trejo as the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The film, “1521,” is set to depict the events leading up to the ...

Francis Drake’s successful voyage included British sailors’ arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish riches that sustained Elizabeth I’s empire Follow Us Explore Subscription ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A replica of Ferdinand Magellan’s four-masted tall ship Nao Trinidad will dock at the Hudson River Maritime Museum from Sept. 19 to Oct. 8 as part of its American voyage, the museum ...

Want to feel like world explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, but still live and eat in comfort the whole time? MSC Cruises has ...

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 ...