The First Voyage around the World - Antonio Pigafetta Audiobook

Written by Antonio Pigafetta
Read by Ginger Walton
Format: M4B
Unabridged

Antonio Pigafetta took part and was one of the surviving members who completed this first voyage around the world. This is his account of the voyage.

First published: 1524
Release date: 04-22-19
English
Audiobook
5 hrs and 2 mins

GR on this journal:
On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta’s The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature. Pigafetta’s book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

GR on Pigafetta:
Scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice. He traveled with the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew by order of the King Charles I of Spain on their voyage to the Indies. During the expedition, he served as Magellan’s assistant and kept an accurate journal which later assisted him in translating one of the Philippine languages, Cebuano. It is the first recorded document concerning this language.

Pigafetta was one of the 18 men who returned to Spain in 1522, out of the approximately 240 who set out three years earlier. The voyage completed the first circumnavigation of the world; Juan Sebastián Elcano served as captain after Magellan’s death. Pigafetta’s journal is the source for much of what we know about Magellan and Elcano’s voyage.

At least one warship of the Italian Navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, was named after him in 1931.