If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese mariner who sailed on behalf of Spain in 1519. But Magellan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magellan passed Rio de Janeiro in November 1519, was in San Julian, Argentina, further south on March 30, 1520. This was where the mutiny broke out.

09/06/2022 September 6, 2022. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan died before his fleet completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth 500 years ago, on September 6, 1522.

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 ...

Magellan - hero or fraud - circumnavigated the globe. Or did he? Picture: Shutterstock Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Bloomsbury, $39.99. Was Ferdinand Magellan ...