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PEILLARD (Léonce). FERNÃO de Magalhães e a Primeira Volta ao Mundo da «Victoria». Lisboa. s.d. - PEILLARD (Léonce) FERNÃO de Magalhães e a Primeira Volta ao Mundo da «Victoria» . Tradução de Fernando Pernes. Lisboa: Livraria Bertrand, s.d. 256, [6] pp.: il.; 220 mm. Biography of Ferdinand Magellan focusing on his circumnavigation expedition and the return of the ship Victoria , by the French naval historian Léonce Peillard, in a Portuguese translation by Fernando Pernes. The work follows the journey of the Portuguese navigator in the service of the Spanish crown, from the organization of the armada in Seville in 1519, to the crossing of the strait that would come to bear his name, to Magellan's death in 1521, and to the return of the Victoria , commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano, which in 1522 completed the first circumnavigation of the world with only eighteen survivors. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate