015 Joyce E. Chaplin, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Summary: Joyce E. Chaplin, Professor of Early American History at Harvard University and author of Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit, leads us on an exploration of the early history of around-the-world voyages and the impact those voyages had on the peoples and places of the Americas, the Pacific Islands, Asia, and Europe.