This is a fascinating story which indirectly includes two gutsy, adventurous, intrepid young explorer-navigators. One-Christopher Columbus, an Italian born in Genoa, Italy in 1491 and sailed for Queen Isabella of Spain in search for shorter route toMoreThis is a fascinating story which indirectly includes two gutsy, adventurous, intrepid young explorer-navigators. One-Christopher Columbus, an Italian born in Genoa, Italy in 1491 and sailed for Queen Isabella of Spain in search for shorter route to Asia. He believed the world was round and thought he had discovered Asia but had landed in America thereby opening the way for further European exploration of the “new world”.The other young explorer-navigator was Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese born in1480 inSabrosa, Portugal who also sailed for King Charles I of Spain searching for a shorter route to the Spice Islands in Asia.
He has been credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the world.Magellan’s ancestor (Miguel Magellan Calooy) went to America, met a Spanish ancestor, raised four children, all college graduates.One of these children is the author of FROM MAGELLAN TO FORT HOOD, TEXAS.