THE GREATEST SAILOR OF ALL There is only one first circumnavigation of the world and it's a horror. It's 1581 and the Catholic Church is under attack from a man named Martin Luther while the Spanish empire extends its bloodthirsty rule across the world against the wishes of its arch-rival, Portugal. The Line of Demarcation divides the world between Portugal and Spain but no one knows on which side the fabulous Spice Iles lie, least of all the inhabitants. Only one man has the skill, the knowledge, the experience and determination to settle the question: Ferdinand Magellan, who is hated in both Spain and Portugal. Antonio Pigafetta, former ambassador from the Holy See to the royal court of imperial Spain, casts his lot with a captain set up to fail. He has no idea what he has let himself in for. Murder, mutiny, shipwreck and religious wars are just part of it.