A world explorer: Ferdinand Magellan.
By: illustrated by Robert Doremus.
Series: World explorer books
Publisher: Garrard Pub. Co.
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521.
Notes: Map on lining-papers
As a young page to the Queen of Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan longed to explore new lands.  Finally, he was sent to Africa, then to India and the far-off spice lands.  There he found danger wherever he went.  Later he tried to circle the globe, and succeeded in finding a passage to the New World.