Cautionary Tales · Stop No. 31
If At First You Don't Succeed
“Circumnavigation is mostly not dying”
- Era
- Age of Sail, 1519–1522
- Provenance
- Everywhere, eventually
- Medium
- Cartographic woodcut on chart paper
- Edition
- One-way edition
The expedition set out with five ships and roughly 270 men, and returned with one ship, eighteen men, and a very good story. Its commander is credited with the first circumnavigation despite completing, personally, slightly more than half of it. The globe pictured is the one thing that made the whole trip.
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