If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan ... that persists around Magellan. In “Straits: Beyond the Myth of ...

Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan began a historic journey to ... sailing west instead of east and going through a rumored strait through South America, he could map a new route to ...

The slow-cinema maestro’s rare color film views history as more than just black and white The post The austere poetry of Lav ...

Since the middle of the 16th century, the western passage has been named Strait of Magellan after Ferdinand Magellan. In the 19th century, many intellectuals celebrated Magellan as a hero and ...

The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan ... sailing through the treacherous Strait of Magellan, crossing the vast Pacific Ocean ...

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Bloomsbury, $39.99. Was Ferdinand Magellan one of the greatest frauds in history? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a world-renowned ...

This area is the renowned Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It is named for Magellan, as he is considered the first European to have sailed through it in 1519 ...

Charleston Maritime Museum via Facebook A replica of the ship Ferdinand Magellan sailed ... discovered the Strait of Magellan and crossed the Pacific Ocean for the first time in history, according ...

Hollywood actor Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “Con Air,” “Heat”) has been cast for the role of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in “1521,” an upcoming historical epic that charts ...