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Enrique of Malacca's Voyage
Enrique's Voyage is a research project examining Enrique of Malacca's ten-year circumnavigation—and the history Enrique traveled through.
Enrique of Malacca was the first person to circumnavigate the globe by language—he traveled so far in one direction (west) that he came to a place where his own language was spoken. Enrique may have also circumnavigated the globe completely, a full circle of the earth beginning and ending in Malacca or somewhere in the Philippines. Enrique’s 10-year journey began in 1511 following the Portuguese invasion of the regional trade hub and continued on Magellan’s Armada de Molucca. Enrique toured the planet at a time of seismic global change, witnessing key events and aspects of the newly emerging world. Read more about EnriqueOfMalacca.com.
Magellan's Unlikely Explorers
First circumnavigation through stories of the far-fetched individuals who joined the expedition.
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Available in papeerback and Kindle print replica.
This was a three-year voyage that circled the globe, crossing a wide swatch of world-changing 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; Duarte Barbosa, Magellan’s relation by marriage and key ally when not shackled after going AWOL with local women; Joãozito Lopes Carvalho, a young boy who became the first native of Brazil to cross the Pacific; and Enrique of Malacca, a teenage Malay slave who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe linguistically, and possibly altogether.
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Travels of Enrique of Malacca
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View the Age of Exploration and the changing world of 1512–1522 through the eyes of a young Malay slave, whose 10-year circumnavigation that brought him from Portugal's colonial entrance into Southeast Asia in 1511 to Spain's colonial debut in the Philippines a decade later. Enrique took the long way.
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Enrique was eyewitness to seismic changes in world history: Portugal's takeover of maritime trade in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean; the West African slave trade; Spain's unification and ascendency to, briefly, a major world power; the continued battle between Christendom and Islam; new battles between the Church and the Jews and the Church and the movement sparked by Martin Luther; European exploitation of the New World; and finally the first European crossing of the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigation that returned Enrique to a land near home, Cebu.
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World of Magellan and Pigafetta
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Antonio Pigafetta's journal of the Magellan-Elcano expedition provides a detailed account of a voyage that beat all sorts of odds to result in one of the fleet's five ships, the Victoria, completing a full circle of the earth beginning and ending in Seville. This edition includes additional eyewitness accounts from crew members, along with a wealth of maps and images illustrating the limits of European geography at the time, and the world the expedition was finally charting.
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Modern-day replica of the nao Victoria.