!["Getting to the Pacific by ship, without having to go over land, was the biggest challenge of that period," says Helen Nadar. "[Magellan's] the one that solved it" (above, a color engraving).](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/4m7LB0EXBTYZ8-gFwnj2VLjKyZw=/388x209/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/magellan_388.jpg)
Ferdinand Magellan’s global journey gave him fame, but took his life
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Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends
The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark expedition
The secret diary of William Clark
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The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
When the first astronauts to walk on the Moon returned from their July 1969 lunar expedition, they were confined to quarters
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A witness to the first ascent of Mount Everest recalls Edmund Hillary’s aplomb, Tenzing Norgay’s grace and other glories of the “last earthly adventure”
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Charles Francis Hall was murdered during an expedition that might have taken him to the North Pole decades before Peary. Or was he?
Set adrift by mutineers during his expedition to find a Northwest Passage, the famous explorer was never heard from again. What was his fate?
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