One book I cannot recommend enough to those who have not read it yet is Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen. It's about the first ever Circumnavigation of the world, and my god what a story it is. An expedition that set out from Seville with 5 ships and over 250 men returns 3 years later to the exact same spot with just 1 ship filled with only 18 of the original expedition members (plus a couple of natives picked up along the way). The journey that those men went through over the course of those 3 years is fantastic, and had me hooked throughout the whole book.
Exactly. Once China closed it borders and started book burning his discoveries were mostly forgotten. But when Magellan visited the Asian islands he found Chinese technology and influence. I have read about Ze in this fantastic book. But I don't know everything about him:
http://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavigation/dp/006093638X
I read this book a year ago: https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavigation/dp/006093638X
About Magellan and his travels in Latin America and then in the Pacific. The dude was a literal psycho.
You might like this, it will help you understand why HEMA use body armor, but FMA doesn't have the benefit of body armor technology,
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006093638X (Over The Edge of The World)
HBO should make a multi season series of Ferdinand Magellan first circumnavigation of the world using the base book: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
Can't recommend the book enough: https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavigation/dp/006093638X
It feels like Battlestar Galactica mixed with the Sopranos on the sea, the political games in order to get to sea at all, the crew wanted to backstab each for rewards back in Europe if they were able to turn at the Cape of Storms at the tip of South America without Magellan, mutinous captains, aspiring captains, religious barbery, a law unto themselves, constant mutinies again, attacks from natives all the way, icebergs, ship wrecks, Andes mountain crossings in the depths of winter and that's BEFORE they reach the Pacific.
He wrote an exquisitely-paced account of the ill-fated voyage complete with cinematic action, page-turning cliff hangers and subtle foreshadowing, all with an easy mastery of the era that offered perfectly timed and interesting asides into the relevant historical elements: the politics, religion, (mis)understanding of geography, the life of a sailor, common forms of torture at sea and much more.