Magellan's Navigator (Albo)

Schultz, Kenneth D

ISBN 10: 1539972577 / ISBN 13: 9781539972570

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magellan's Navigator (Albo)
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishi
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539972577
• ISBN 13: 9781539972570
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Seasoned mariner Francisco Albo signs on with Magellan’s five-ship armada realizing possible shipwreck, storms, and even scurvy might lie ahead. However, the trials will be worth it if Magellan succeeds where Columbus failed…and finds a westward route to the rich Spice Islands of the East Indies. That success should assure his making the fortune he craves. First, the passage around the Americas must be found and the uncharted ocean beyond those lands traversed.What the canny Greek doesn’t anticipate are treacherous rajahs, Magellan’s religious fervor, and mutiny will be a greater threat to the fleet than any hurricane…and that upon reaching the Philippines, Magellan will die in a senseless battle and a rajah will murder most of the fleet’s officers.Albo then reaches an uneasy alliance with a surviving mutineer and pilots the sole remaining ship around the world back to Spain.Magellan’s Navigator is Albo’s story.

Review

ReviewIn Magellan's Navigator, Kenneth D. Schultz...provides a new angle on the bold but trouble-plagued Armada of the Moluccas...that sailed from Seville in 1519 to develop a westbound route around the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean to the Spice Islands. Instead of focusing his tale on Ferdinand Magellan, the expedition leader who was murdered in the Philippines, Schultz tells the story from the perspective of the captain's first mate [Francisco Albo.]...While Magellan's sailing acumen is admirable, Albo looks on helplessly as his captain makes fatal mistakes in the management of his own men and in his encounters with other cultures...Reminiscent of other seafaring books, such as Two Years Before the Mast, Magellan's Navigator is unsentimental, muscular writing, packed with tension and adventure. Barbara McMichael in the Kitsap Sun and the Coast Weekend May, 5, 2017