In the sixteenth century, Spain's control over its vast New World empire depended on the sailors and officers who manned the galleons and merchant vessels of its Atlantic fleets. In Spain's Men of the Sea, Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina paints a stunning portrait of daily life aboard the ships of the Spanish Main. With a novelist's eye for both detail and drama, Perez-Mallaina evokes the golden age of seafaring in this thoroughly researched and generously illustrated account.
Spain's Men of the Sea begins in Seville, the gateway to the New World. One of Europe's most...
In the sixteenth century, Spain's control over its vast New World empire depended on the sailors and officers who manned the galleons and merchant ...
