Sea

How a small country at the edge of Europe took to the ocean: shipyards, maps, shipwrecks and people who sailed away and came back.

3 stories

Avis and the Discoveries2 stories

  • On an empty shore a captain shows his sailors a sprig of wild flowers; out at sea, a sailing boat with a cross on its sail.

    1434 · Cape Bojador

    The cape of fear

    • Documented

    For twelve years sailors feared one cape. Gil Eanes brought back flowers.

Pombal and the Earthquake1 story