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This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman, but despite its historical, geographical, and ethnographic relevance it has never merited an annotated (or even a separate) edition in English. This edition, which includes a detailed introduction and extensive notes, allows the English-speaking public to follow Knivet's compelling tale. The account describes Knivet's incredible adventures, experienced roughly between 1592 and 1601, which include working as a drudge for the governor of Rio de Janeiro, escaping into the hinterland to live with native tribes and joining in expeditions of conquest and gold-seeking. The story provides a unique insight into early colonial Brazil and the myriad of people occupying its territory: Portuguese settlers, mixed-race servants, Indians, slaves, and European travellers.

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Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in European and American archives, offers fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion, sickness, and starvation but also of courage, dogged persistence, leadership, and loyalty.

Voyages around the world --- Circumnavigation --- Journeys --- Tours around the world --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips around the world --- International travel --- Voyages and travels --- History. --- Magalhães, Fernão de, --- Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, --- Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro de, --- Villalobos, Ruy López de, --- Legazpi, Miguel López de, --- Drake, Francis, --- Cavendish, Thomas, --- López de Villalobos, Ruy, --- Villalobos, Rui Lopez de, --- Cerón, Álvaro de Saavedra, --- De Saavedra Cerón, Álvaro, --- De Magalhaẽs, Fernão, --- Magallanes, Fernando de, --- Magallanes, Hernando de, --- Magellan, Ferdinand, --- Magellan, Fernand de, --- Magellano, Ferdinando, --- De Legazpi, Miguel López, --- López de Legazpi, Miguel, --- De Loaisa, Garcia Jofre, --- Loaisa, Garcia Jofre de, --- Loaysa, Garcia Jofre de, --- Candish, Thomas, --- Magellaan, Ferdinand