Magallanes & Co.

This book recounts the most spectacular of all maritime epics, the famous first circumnavigation of the globe led by Ferdinand Magellan, whose navy sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in September 1519 and returned to the peninsula, successful but tragically diminished, three years later. His historic feat forever changed the imago mundi that had governed Western thought for centuries, but it was also full of chiaroscuro often ignored in the official narrative. In Magallanes & Co., Isabel Soler draws from the testimonies of navigators, adventurers and merchants, in addition to numerous other sources about the Moluccas company, to give shape to an exhaustive and vivid account of her journey, including the eight years, fundamental for his subsequent company, which Magellan went to the service of the Indian army in eastern lands. A vibrant story that will transport the reader to the time of the great voyages and discoveries at the hands of one of his main specialists.