Harry Kelsey is a research scholar at the Huntington Library and the author of several acclaimed biographies of sixteenth-century explorers, including Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate. He lives in Altadena, CA.
“This book is a thorough and well-written narrative based upon the
original journals of early seamen who circumnavigated the globe.
Harry Kelsey has put life into the men who sailed on these voyages,
detailing the hardships they suffered, the food they ate, the
dangers they faced, the natives they met, and the fights they had.
In sum, much that goes beyond popular accounts to explain the
remarkable and daring accomplishments of sixteenth-century
explorers who searched the world for riches—both real and
imagined—are contained in these pages.”—Iris Engstrand, University
of San Diego
*Iris Engstrand*
“There are few historians who have mastered the source material
pertaining to this period to the extent that Kelsey has. A
wonderful read for anyone interested in the history of world
exploration.”—John Johnson, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History
*John Johnson*
“The First Circumnavigators is an old-fashioned, spume-flecked work
of history. Kelsey’s main concern is with the mariner’s themselves,
and the timber hulks in which they rode the waves. He provides
revealing evidence not only of the physical hardships of life at
sea, but also of the psychological attrition”—David Gelber,
Literary Review
*Literary Review*
“[A] meticulously researched account of the early Pacific
voyages”—Adam Nicolson, Spectator
*Spectator*
“Kelsey writes with enormous authority.”—Jonathan Dore, TLS
*TLS*
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