... with the rise of Diego Portales to power and the promulgation of the Constitution of 1833. Only then did Chile become interested in her boundaries. During the 1830s Chilean interest in the Strait of Magellan was aroused because of English activity there. Although the British government never officially...

... Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigator, His Life and Explorations . 2nd ed. By Parr Charles McKew . Introduction by Captain Edward L. Beach U. S. N. New York , 1964 . Thomas Y. Crowell Company . Appendix. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 426 . $8.50...

..., Vol. XXX (London, 1862; reprinted New York, 196[4?]). For Nowell’s comments, see Magellan’s Voyage , p. 7 (I have corrected a transposition error in the quotation). I have not seen Maurice Edstrom, Stillehavets beseirer; Ferdinand Magellans liv og oppdagelser , Overs, av. Olaf Rynning-Tønnesen...

...Martin Torodash Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation . 2 vols. By Pigafetta Antonio . Translated and edited by Skelton R. A. . New Haven , 1969 . Yale University Press . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 195 (Vol...

...Ernesto Bohoslavsky Patagonia, a Forgotten Land: From Magellan to Perón . By Brebbia C. A. . Boston : WIT Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . xi , 368 pp. Cloth , $59.00 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Patagonia...

... of Europe and thus neglecting numerous works that would have enriched the text. Nonetheless, the careful, well-organized discussion of the people, deeds, and contexts of Magellan's voyage makes Straits a valuable contribution to understanding not only the circumnavigation but also the geopolitics...

...Charles E. Nowell So Noble a Captain: the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan . By Parr Charles McKew . ( New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co. , 1953 . Pp. xiv , 423 . Bibliography, index . $6.00 .) Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...James Alexander Robertson Copyright 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 Hawkins, Scourge of Spain . By Gosse Philip . ( New York : Harper & Brothers , 1930 . Pp. xii , 290 . $4.00 .) Ferdinand Magellan . By Benson E. F. . ( New York : Harper & Brothers...

... Conqueror of the Seas. The Story of Magellan . By Zweig Stefan . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1938 . Pp. xvi , 335 . Illus. Map. $3.50 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...Martin Torodash Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World . By Cameron Ian . Introduction by Fuchs V. E. . New York , 1973 . Saturday Review Press . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 224 . Cloth. $12.50 . The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages . Edited...

...John Vogt Magellan of the Pacific . By Roditi Edouabd . New York , 1972 . McGraw-Hill . Illustrations. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 271 . Cloth. $6.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Edouard Roditi’s Magellan of the Pacific is more than a mere...

... 1984 The Pacific since Magellan Vol. II. Monopolists and Freebooters . By Spate O. H. K. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1983 . Illustrations. Notes. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Index . Pp. xxi , 426 . Cloth . $59.50 . ...

...William F. E. Morley First Around the World. A Journal of Magellan’s Voyage . By Sanderlin George . New York , 1964 . Harper and Row . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 196 . $3.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 For every volume published...

...Ione Stuessy Wright Magellan’s Voyage Around the World, Three Contemporary Accounts . Edited by Nowell Charles E. . Evanston , 1962 . Northwestern University Press . Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. 349 . $7.50 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Although the stated...

... the historic voyage around the world, he sent to Ragusa in this same friendly and helpful gesture the information he had on the success of the Magellan expedition. The first modern historian to notice Bannisio’s dispatches was Josip Gelcic, 6 a scholar from Cattaro, at that time professor...

... La primera vuelta al mundo (Plaza y Janés, Bogotá, 1984) which appeared in HAHR last November. The reviewer, Paul E. Hoffman of Louisiana State University, begins by objecting to the title, “El libro de la nao Victoria ,” which I use in my “Table of Contents” for the document from the Magellan...

... exults the author’s affection for his beloved Magallanes. In well-written prose, he presents the story of the Straits of Magellan from the time Ferdinand Magellan made his extraordinary contribution to the expansion of Europe in the sixteenth century. We witness a parade of explorers, filibusters...

... 1986 This volume contains the texts of four documents relating to the Magellan-Elcano voyage of circumnavigation and Obregón’s introductory narrative of the voyage. The documents are Juan Sebastián Elcano’s letter to Charles V, San Lúcar, September 6, 1522; Francisco Albo’s rutter of the voyage...

...Charles E. Nowell An entertaining feature of the appendix is an article, “The Patagonian Giants,” by Dr. Helen Wallis of the British Museum Map Room. Dr. Wallis, after reviewing reports by travellers from Magellan’s Pigafetta to Charles Darwin, inclines to agree that the Patagonian Indians...

... that scholarship and research have not died out in Spain, despite the civil war, the world war, and the troubled period we are now in. The voyages for which texts are printed are those of Alonso de Camargo, sent by the bishop of Plasencia to the Straits of Magellan in 1539; Rodriguez Cabrillo, in 1542, up...