" Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding surf of the Atlantic. "

― Laurence Bergreen , Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe