Volume I
Pigafetta’s Log
Magellan’s fleet · the first voyage around the world · 1519–1522
Pigafetta’s Log retells the first voyage around the world as Antonio Pigafetta saw it. Pigafetta, a young gentleman from Vicenza, sailed with Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet in 1519 and was one of the eighteen men who came home on the Victoria three years later. His journal is the fullest eyewitness account of the expedition.
Summary · Philippines study guide · Limasawa or Butuan? · Pigafetta’s Cebuano words · The codex · About and sources
Volume II
Lewis and Clark’s Log
The Corps of Discovery · up the Missouri to the Pacific and back · 1804–1806
Lewis and Clark’s Log retells the journey of the Corps of Discovery, which crossed the West from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back between 1804 and 1806, from the journals its members kept along the way.
Summary · Timeline · Route · Who went · Sacagawea · Discoveries · The codex · About and sources
Volume III
Legazpi’s Log
From Mexico to Manila · the voyage that found the way back across the Pacific · 1564–1572
Legazpi’s Log retells the voyage that began more than three hundred years of Spanish rule in the Philippines: Miguel López de Legazpi’s expedition from Mexico in 1564, the settlement of Cebu, the friar Andrés de Urdaneta’s discovery of the way back across the Pacific, and the founding of Spanish Manila in 1571.
Timeline · Who’s who · The name · The blood compact · The galleon trade · Founding of Manila · The codex · About and sources