This was how the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano described the outcome of his three-month-long northward advance along the length of the Atlantic coast in a small ship, the Dauphine, and a crew of 50 ...

The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet. Last year marked the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s ...