and most sustained way in which people have been able to consider themselves as actors within a geodrama, even as it has changed over time. the changes can be understood as three acts in the trauma, three phases in human beings comprehension's of themselves as actors. in the first act which lasted from magellan's departure on the first circumnavigation to james cook death and how why from 1519 to 1779, mariners went around the world did so in fear. it was reasonable for them to be fearful given the dangers of such a voyage in the age of sail when mortality rates for circumnavigation routinely covered in the 80th and 70th percentiles. a lot of people who tried to your around the world. the world simply charge most of them off. in this initial phase the longest in history of circumnavigation comment that prevailed. travelers did so with a striking confidence that they could survive the experience. western societies had generated technology and political networks that seemed to have conquered the globe. at this point it was not only possible to go around the world, but it had become a popul