Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...

Magellan’s Voyage—Search for the Spice Islands, a documentary commemorating the first circumnavigation of the globe, has been licensed by ZDF Enterprises to the New York public broadcaster WNET.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magellan's ships pioneered a new route to the spice islands - North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo Aboard Ferdinand ...

DEATH SAILS WITH MAGELLAN — Charles Ford—Random House ($2.50). Off the Islands of the Kings (Guam) . . . we found a Gallegan whose name was Gonzalo of Vigo who said he had been left in those lands for ...

Lisbon’s Tower of Belem is so well-placed on the side of Portugual’s Tagus river that one can easily imagine its historical use as a defensive tower. In these extraordinary times, when the globe’s ...

The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the Philippines two years into the adventure, leaving Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano to complete the three-year trip. But it is Magellan's name that ...