The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

Joining the Philippine Map Collectors Society, as we approach the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Magellan expedition and the first circumnavigation of the world in the 16th century, made me ...

“Magellan should not be seen as the beginning of Philippine history but one event [in] a history that still has to be written and rewritten for a new generation.” A 1545 map traces the route ...

It is titled Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez Armesto. The Philippine Map Collectors Society (Phimcos) had a Zoom webinar about it recently which I attended and found out about the book ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European ... of a national resistance hero. “Magellan,” which premiered at the ...

Lara Ho of Inspire Studios (“Angel Warrior,” “Palawan: Last Man Out”), “1521” is a U.S.-Philippines production that follows the journey of Magellan, who led the Spanish expedition and ...