Enrique 1521

BEFORE MAGELLAN, BEFORE THE PHILIPPINES, THERE WAS ENRIQUE.

Sold into slavery. Gifted with many tongues. Witness to history.

In 1511, a boy named Enrique was taken from Malacca and forced into servitude. A decade later, he would find himself sailing across oceans as the personal interpreter of Ferdinand Magellan, facing storms, mutinies, native kingdoms-and the first global voyage in history.

But when Magellan falls at the Battle of Mactan, Enrique is left behind in the islands, surrounded by ...