Magellan - A General Account of the Life and Times and Remarkable Adventures by Land and by Sea of the Most Eminent and Renowned Navigator (Paperback)

1924. Hildebrand reconstructs the life and voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, Commander of the Order of Santiago, His Majesty's Captain General of the Armada which first went around the world. Partial Contents: Of the state of geography in the year 1493; How Ferdinand Magellan came to the Court at Lisbon, and of the news he heard there; Of the voyage to India, and what transpired there; How Magellan was sorry to leave the East, and did not do so; Of the important events that followed the taking of Malacca; Of Magellan's return to Lisbon; How Magellan transferred his allegiance to Spain; Of the voyage of the Armada across the South Atlantic; Of the loss of the Santiago, which was Juan Serrano's ship; Of the voyage from Cape Dezeado to the Unfortunate Isles, and what happened on the way; Of the Kings who were in that discovered archipelago, and in what manner they received Magellan and his men; and How the fleet wandered among the islands, and heard news of Francisco Serrano.