Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery Literary essays and Mikhail Bakhtin

and Mikhail Bakhtin

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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery Literary essays and Mikhail BakhtinThe story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discoveryand of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugals monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacificand then, critically, to attempt the never before accomplished return, the vuelta.