In this story, you'll meet a golden-brown-haired Portuguese nobleman, a red-haired Spanish pirate, Barbarossa Hayreddin, the pirate king of Algiers, and the famous English sea devil, Francis Drake...
Wait, doesn't that sound a little familiar...
Actually...
You've been fooled!
This is a history, the story of the Kingdom of Portugal's rise to greatness and its eventual decline. Though it spans only a few short decades, it is a miniature portrait of the entire Age of Discovery.
In this story, you'll witness the development of European seafaring, from the Iberian Peninsula to Africa, India, and China. You'll see famous missionaries travel the sea routes to the unknown lands of the East, sowing the seeds of religion in every corner of the world.
A small country is nothing to fear. What is truly frightening is having no heart that always strives to advance. Throughout the history of European seafaring, countless Portuguese explorers navigated the seas with such ambition...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.
.. The writing is good. But I wrote it in Feilu. . . .