Magellan's Voyage: v. 1: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)

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This is a very good historical book. Of course it has been translated. Pigafettta was responsible for keeping a daily diary of the trip in the 1500s. It is fascinating to think that we can read this now in our century. Pigafetta was Italian. Many men on the ships were from other countries. Magellan was Portuguese but commanding a Spanish fleet. Of the five ships making the journey only one made it back to Spain and only 18 of the crew arrived in Spain. This is a good read if you are interested in history.

Not worth the purchase. You are better off reading the original notes or diaries of Magellan, if you can find it. Take note that he wrote this years after the voyage and to make a report to different nobles and dignitaries in Europe, which means there are embellishments and inaccuracies so as to impress more.

A splendid edition of a classic work on one of the most significant voyages of discovery in European history. The editor's introduction is excellent: clear, honest and complete. And the notes clarifying the text are very useful.

Posted this review on 11/28/20, the 500th anniversary of the day Magellan had completed crossing the Strait of Magellan and from there on would particularly contribute to the first circumnavigation of the world.I purchased this 6 months ago. I generally read like 2 chapters a day a majority of the time and found most of them short and quick to read at some points.The beginning gives background information particularly with accounts given by the survivors and how there are other manuscripts of Pigafetta’s diary of the voyage(this accordingly uses a manuscript that’s been given to Yale University). From there on afterwards it’s mainly Pigafetta’s account of the voyage.Throughout the book there are various footnotes(or “Notes to the Translation”) explaining some trivia, a few details not mentioned by Pigafetta but accounted by other sources, confirmation or slight corrections of coordinates(usually in terms of latitude) of certain locations along with speculations of what some of the places would’ve been, mentioning details that are also in or omitted in other manuscripts, etc. Also throughout much of each chapter there’s some endnotes(sometimes there are notes in the middle of a chapter) that give a summary of certain major parts of the chapter.There many pictures and images in black and white usually consisting of maps(and at one point a globe, “The Ambassadors’ Globe”, made after the expedition) that could be found on the public domain. In the pictures I show the depicted maps of the Strait of Magellan and the Moluccas.In certain chapters, there are several lists of translated words of different languages Pigafetta got from locals the expedition interacted with.It’s odd though that Pigafetta never mentions El Cano, not even by name, even after he took charge of captaining the Victoria. And based on some other reviews Pigafetta might’ve given more detail to the Spice Islands the most for those interested in them.Still I was curious to know some additional details of voyage based of the expedition’s experience and backed up with the footnotes I did get a more detailed idea of how they were even able to navigate within Indonesia to find the Moluccas.One intriguing part I remember is when they stopped for resupply at the Cape Verde Islands the survivors of expedition asked the Portuguese what day it was. To the expedition it was Wednesday, but the Portuguese answered Thursday. Due to their circumnavigation westwards they seemed to have gained back a day, based on how they kept track of their days seeing only how the sun sets and rises.Some might argue that there might be better account sources than this, but I did get to learn more about this expedition in detail than I had prior.