This biography of Ferdinand Magellan, who in 1519 commanded the "most remarkable and perilous [voyage] in seafaring history," rarely captures the drama of its subject. Not only does the pageantry of ...

Ferdinand Magellan set out 500 years ago to find the westward route to the riches of the Spice Islands. But, contrary to popular perception, he never reached them. Rose explains the dramatic sequence ...

Part one: "Through a glass, darkly." A voyage to the land of God : Queen Hatshepsut's expedition of 1493 B.C. to the golden land of Punt ; "And they beheld the sun on their right hand" : the ...