Masters of the Ocean Sea

We are taught that the Age of Discovery began with Columbus and ended with Magellan. We were taught wrong. Long before the world’s superpowers dared to cross the horizon, a small kingdom on Europe’s Atlantic fringe was quietly changing the world. Masters of the Ocean Sea uncovers the epic saga of the Portuguese explorers who first pushed past the edges of the known map and stitched the globe together by sea. From the windswept shores of Sagres to the spice markets of India, this book restores Portugal to the center of the great age of exploration.

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