Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to ...
Chaplin, Joyce E. / Bean, Joyce For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth--by sail, steam, or liquid fuel, by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not includin...