Cautionary Tales · Stop No. 27
Ferdinand
“If at First You Don't Succeed”
- Era
- 1519 to 1522, completed posthumously
- Provenance
- Circumnavigation route, approximately halfway
- Medium
- Dense engraving on speckled cream, storm applied liberally
- Edition
- One expedition; eighteen finishers of roughly two hundred and seventy
Ferdinand Magellan organized the first voyage around the world and attended slightly more than half of it. The expedition succeeded; the distinction between the expedition and the man is left as an exercise. The skeleton rising from the waves is not named in the manifest.
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