About the book: 2006 / Portugal at the end of the 18th century... Busy ports where many ships sail from the most distant countries, and city streets where incredible stories about the sea are heard travels...The Inquisition, persecuting heretical freethinkers and Jews of other faiths...The wealth of merchants and artisans, the poverty of the poor and vagabonds...It is here that the story of the amazing adventures of a young man begins, who will become a participant in grandiose events in both the Old and New Worlds, survive mortal risks and great, desperate love…