Historian Laurence Bergreen joins Host Larry Mantle to tell the tale of the greatest maritime voyage of discovery, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, from 1519-1522. It has been over ...

Almost all of what is currently known about the first circumnavigation of the world, one of mankind’s greatest achievements, is from the writings of Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian born explorer who ser ...

Four weary “air Magellans,” burnt by the wind, lined by the sun, reached Seattle, their round-the-earth goal. There they endured their final ovation, with sirens shrieking, crowds cheering, orators ...

NEW BEDFORD — All aboard! For the second year in a row, the Nao Trinidad is headed back to Pope’s Island Marina. The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with ...

The first flight around the world took off and landed in Seattle. In 1924 a group of American flyers made a bold decision to be the first to fly around the Earth, a flight that would begin and end in ...

From McCook Field, Dayton, four weary air Magellans took off (in two planes), flew to Chicago under perfect conditions in the easiest hop of their trip around the earth (TIME, Mar. 24 et seq.). In a ...