First Voyage Round the World by Magellan
Translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta and Other Contemporary Writers

Volume 52 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1874) contains a survivor's account of Magellan's expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Antonio Pigafetta (Author), Henry Edward John Stanley (Edited by)

9781108011433, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 June 2010

372 pages, 5 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1874 volume contains an account of the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519–1522 by Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian member of Magellan's expedition. It also contains Pigafetta's treatise on navigation, and other material relating to Magellan's voyage, including log-books, records by the pilot and others, and details of the crew and the cost of the fleet. Pigafetta vividly recorded the geography, climate, flora, fauna and the inhabitants of the places that the expedition visited, as well as Magellan's death in the Philippines.

Introduction
The Genoese pilot's account of Magellan's voyage
Narrative of the anonymous Portuguese
Pigafetta's account of Magellan's voyage
Pigafetta's treatise of navigation
Names of the first circumnavigators
Magellan's order of the day in the Straits
Letter of Maximiliarn, the Transylvan
Log-book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro
Account of the 'Trinity' and her crew
Account of the mutiny in Port St. Julian, and Gaspar Correa's account of the voyage
Cost of Magellan's fleet
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]