Enrique of Malacca  was the first person to circumnavigate the globe linguistically—he traveled so far in one direction (west) that he cam...

The Roteiro of "the Genoese Pilot" is one of ten surviving accounts of Magellan's voyage by a crew member, and it covers the f...

From Abraham Ortelius's Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descripto, 1570. ( Source .) Navigation and Voyage Which Fernando de Magalhaes Ma...

After some distraction,* I'm finally updating this blog's Resources pages again, starting with  Biographies and Long-Form Accounts ...

HMS Minden (center-left) during the bombardment of Algiers, 1816. ( Source .) Frank Marryat ’s first impressions of Hong Kong, of Britain’s ...

When the British took possession of Hong Kong in 1840, their new colony consisted of just Hong Kong island, largely a baron rock except for ...

  Hong Kong and San Francisco (Library of Congress). Frank Marryat (Samuel Francis ~; 1826–1855) was a traveler and writer, both of which we...

Johannes Ruysch world map. If you plot Leif Erikson's voyage of discovery on Johannes Ruysch ’s world map of 1508, the Viking explorer r...

Ptolemy world map created by Lord Nicolas the German in 1482. It wasn’t Columbus or Magellan who proved the world was round. The flat Earth ...

Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro at Guam, c. 1590. Updated. March 6, 1521: Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reached Guam after...