...crowns. Characters these stories include Marco Polo (1254-1324), Zheng-He (1371-1433), Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519), Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), Prince Henry of Portugal, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

Written vividly, the scenes and sound of the explorers' voyages and the mutinies...

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