Over the Edge of the World

Timeline of Magellan’s Voyage

1519

August 10

Magellan’s fleet, the Armada de Moluccas, departs Seville with five ships

September 20

Fleet departs Sanlúcar de Barrameda, bound for the Spice Islands

mid-December

Visits Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1520

February 3

Magellan resumes voyage southward in search of strait

April

Magellan quells violent mutiny at Port Saint Julian

August 24

Fleet departs; Santiago wrecked in storm; four ships remain

October 21

Magellan discovers the strait and begins to navigate it

November

Mutiny aboard San Antonio;she returns to Spain

Late November

Magellan’s fleet, now three ships, enters the Pacific

1521

March 6

Magellan sights Guam after a 98-day passage

April 7

Fleet arrives in Cebu, now the Philippine Islands

April 27

Magellan dies in the bloody battle of Mactan

May 21

San Antonio arrives in Seville

May

Concepción burned; the fleet’s two remaining ships resume the voyage

November

Remnants of fleet sight Ternate and Tidore in the Spice Islands

December 21

Victoria departs Tidore; Trinidad remains for repairs, later captured by the Portuguese

1522

September 6

Victoria, with only 18 of the fleet’s original crew of 260, returns to Sanlúcar

September 8

Victoria enters Seville, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, a Basque mariner

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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Cover design by Richard L. Aquan

Cover images: map from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University; seascape photograph courtesy of Jon Diamond; inset of ship and portrait of Magellan from the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Bergreen, Laurence.

Over the edge of the world: Magellan’s terrifying circumnavigation of the globe/Laurence Bergreen.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-621173-5

1. Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521—Journeys. 2. Explorers—Portugal— Biography. 3. Voyages around the world. I. Title.

G420.M2B47 2003

910’.92–dc21 [B] 2003050143

Digital Edition JULY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-186588-6

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