Magellan: And the First Voyage Around the World

Determined to find a new and better route to Asia and the distant and profitable Spice Islands, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519 on what would become the history-making first circumnavigation of the world. Magellan himself did not complete the journey he was killed by a poison arrow while on the Pacific island of Mactan but the expedition he mounted forever changed the course of human exploration. Details of the journey, including Magellan s tools of navigation, the political battles for control over the valuable islands of the Pacific, and Magellan s final moments in battle, are all vividly portrayed