In part 5 of our series on Francis Drake, the English explorer sets out from modern-day California towards Asia.
Drake will reach the fabled Spice Islands, and then head west – rounding the southern tip of Africa – and head home to England.
In doing so, he will become only the second person to circumnavigate the globe.
In the first episode of our multi-part series on Ferdinand Magellan, we find the navigator being rejected by his native Portugal, and turning to Spain to back his expedition to find the legendary Spice Islands via a westerly trade route.