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Enrique of Malacca​
Coming Soon: A travelogue history of the world in 1521, when Enrique of Malacca became the first person to circumnavigate the globe. 
Taken as a slave by Ferdinand Magellan in Malacca in 1511, Enrique traveled westward so far that he came to an island where his own language was spoken, Limasawa Island in the Visayas, modern-day Philippines. His rough itinerary: Malacca, Kochi, Malindi, Lisbon, Spain, Brazil, Patagonia, the Magellan Strait, Guam, Philippines.

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• Duarte Barbosa, Magellan Ally w/ India Experience
• Charles V, Magellan's Royal Backer
• Joãozito Carvalho, 1st Brazilian to Cross Pacific
• Juan de Cartagena, Magellan Mutineer
• Paulo the Patagonian Giant​

Magellan's Unlikely Explorers

– Stories of the First Circumnavigation –

Magellan's Unlikely Explorers looks at the first circumnavigation through stories of the far-fetched individuals who joined the expedition. This was a three-year voyage that circled the globe and crossed a wide swatch of history along the way. Among its crew were Antonio Pigafetta, the Italian scholar who passing through Spain just happened to hear about a fleet being prepared, and went on to write its history … Read more.

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