Sailing the World

From the 15th to the 17th centuries, sails cut across the oceans, and mankind truly embraced the world for the first time. The Portuguese fleet crossed the Cape of Good Hope, Columbus mistakenly crossed into America, and Magellan completed his voyage around the world. The great voyage started globalization, and also brought about colonial plunder, the slave trade and the destruction of civilization. This book sets aside the filter of heroic legends, tells the glory, conflicts and heavy costs behind the glory of the Age of Discovery, and restores a complete and complex maritime era.