Las primeras navegaciones hispano-lusitanas en los siglos XV-XVII
Las primeras navegaciones hispano-lusitanas en los siglos XV-XVII
In this book, Vera Moya undertakes a complex task: navigating the shadowy seas of an elusive feeling, the fear experienced in the face of imminent danger, whether real or imagined. She does so within the historical context of the 15th to 17th centuries, when Spaniards and Portuguese ventured forth in fragile ships bound for the then-unknown oceans beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Of these shadowy seas, nothing was known for certain; all that existed were tales from antiquity and the Middle Ages, teeming with monsters and fantastical creatures, turbulent seas, abysses, and giant whales that appeared to be islands.
