About the book: year / "This dream of making small, powerless Portugal a great maritime power and turning the Atlantic Ocean, hitherto known as an insurmountable barrier, into a waterway, became the goal of my whole life Infanta Enrique, deservedly and at the same time undeservedly called in history Henry the Navigator. Undeservedly, because with the exception of a short sea voyage to Ceuta, Enrique never set foot on a ship, did not write a single book about navigation, not a single navigational treatise, did not draw a single map. And yet history has rightfully given him this name, for this Portuguese prince gave his entire life and all his wealth to navigation and sailors alone..»