Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?

Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?
Author: S. A. Kramer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2004-08-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1101640014

When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance readers' understanding of the period.

Over the Edge of the World

Over the Edge of the World
Author: Laurence Bergreen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0061865885

“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.

The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522

The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522
Author: Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802093701

The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

Magellan

Magellan
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780756501259

Describes the journey taken by Magellan that proved the earth was round and that the oceans were connected.

The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan

The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Raintree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780739814840

Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822529422

The first man to sail around the world, Ferdinand Magellan was born around 1480 and grew up in Portugal. After several years in the Portuguese Navy, Magellan left for Spain, Portugal's greatest rival, in an attempt to further his career. Magellan set sail on a trip to in search of a straight through South America to reach the Spice Islands, and he became the first explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the globe.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Mervyn D. Kaufman
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736824873

Provides an introduction to the life of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who found a passage for ships to sail west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Jim Hargrove
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780516030517

The life of the Portuguese navigator and explorer who launched the first voyage around the world in the early 1500's but met his death before his men completed the expedition.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1545750254

Ferdinand Magellan made one of the most famous ocean voyages of all time. He left Spain in 1519 with five ships. He was trying to find a quicker route to the Spice Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he encountered many problems. Many of his men turned against him. He ran into heavy storms. Food and fresh water were often in short supply. But he kept going-until he was killed in battle. A year later, one of his ships returned to Spain. It was the first time anyone had sailed all the way around the world. Although Magellan did not complete the trip, he is given credit, for without his inspired leadership, the voyage would never have succeeded.