Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan and the Quest to Circle the Globe written by Samuel Willard Crompton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magellan set out in 1519 with five ships to find a passage through the Americas. Such a passage, if it existed, would allow Spanish ships to follow a westward route to the East Indies. After months of fruitless searching, Magellan eventually found a narro

Download or read book The First Voyage Around the World 1519 1522 written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

Download or read book Magellan s Voyage Around the World written by Cath Senker and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can follow great explorers on historical journeys along famous landforms with this unique series. The geographical features are tied into the personal accounts of the explorers on their expeditions, including the conditions and equipment they had. Each book is filled with primary sources such as quotations from diaries and journals.

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Download or read book Seven Voyages written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian Oceans, traveling as far as the east coast of Africa, expanding Chinese power globally, warring with pirates, and capturing enemies along the way in the name of his emperor, Zhu Di. But this giant figure was not always at the helm of a ship.

Download or read book The First Voyage Around the World by Magellan written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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