Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across ...

You may faintly remember hearing about Ferdinand Magellan in a high school history class. You certainly won’t get much ...

And know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" First word I QUOTE T. S. Eliot as an epigraph for this column to underscore how magnificent, wondrous and irreplaceable the feat ...

MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...

The explorer died on a Philippines beach in April 1521, joining the scores who perished in Spain's quest to circumnavigate the globe. At the southernmost tip of South America lies a perilous strait ...