To the expedition it was Wednesday, but the Portuguese answered Thursday. One intriguing part I remember is when they stopped for resupply at the Cape Verde Islands the survivors of expedition asked the Portuguese what day it was. Still I was curious to know some additional details of voyage based of the expedition’s experience and backed up with the footnotes I did get a more detailed idea of how they were even able to navigate within Indonesia to find the Moluccas.
And based on some other reviews Pigafetta might’ve given more detail to the Spice Islands the most for those interested in them. It’s odd though that Pigafetta never mentions El Cano, not even by name, even after he took charge of captaining the Victoria. In certain chapters, there are several lists of translated words of different languages Pigafetta got from locals the expedition interacted with. In the pictures I show the depicted maps of the Strait of Magellan and the Moluccas. There many pictures and images in black and white usually consisting of maps(and at one point a globe, “The Ambassadors’ Globe”, made after the expedition) that could be found on the public domain. Also throughout much of each chapter there’s some endnotes(sometimes there are notes in the middle of a chapter) that give a summary of certain major parts of the chapter. Throughout the book there are various footnotes(or “Notes to the Translation”) explaining some trivia, a few details not mentioned by Pigafetta but accounted by other sources, confirmation or slight corrections of coordinates(usually in terms of latitude) of certain locations along with speculations of what some of the places would’ve been, mentioning details that are also in or omitted in other manuscripts, etc. From there on afterwards it’s mainly Pigafetta’s account of the voyage. The beginning gives background information particularly with accounts given by the survivors and how there are other manuscripts of Pigafetta’s diary of the voyage(this accordingly uses a manuscript that’s been given to Yale University). I generally read like 2 chapters a day a majority of the time and found most of them short and quick to read at some points. Posted this review on 11/28/20, the 500th anniversary of the day Magellan had completed crossing the Strait of Magellan and from there on would particularly contribute to the first circumnavigation of the world. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice.
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