Five black ships
Subtitle: a novel of the discoverers
By: Napoléon Baccino Ponce de León ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Magalhães, Fernão de, d.1521 -- Fiction.
Description: In the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1519, a jester named Juanillo joins an expedition for the Spice Islands and circles the entire world - "the greatest undertaking ever known to man." Huge sails unfurl in the breeze, church bells fill the air, and five black ships - the Trinidad, the San Antonio, the Concepcion, the Santiago, and the Victoria - embark, their crews infected with dreams: dreams of gold, adventure, the unknown, and of cloves, pepper, saffron, cinnamon, to make them rich and bring them titles and honors.
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."