The Magellanic Diaries 7

Exploration: Route 66 and the American Mythos

Route 66: Mojave Desert. Photo Credit: Julia Dean

In writing about Henry the Navigator in my last diary entry, I was preparing to write about a broader swath of explorers, names that may sound vaguely familiar from elementary school lessons, as Magellan’s did. There are stories to be told about those precursors and contemporaries of Magellan. The broades…